Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 4 , Pages 277-283 , July 2003

A comparison of life events between suicidal adolescents with major depression and borderline personality disorder

  • Netta Horesh

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Netta Horesh, Ph.D., Chairperson of the Clinical Division, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
    • Clinical Division, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan; Israel
    • ,
  • Jonathan Sever

      Affiliations

    • Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel
    • Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; and the Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
    • ,
  • Alan Apter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; and the Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel
    • Clinical Division, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan; Israel

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doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00091-9

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 4 , Pages 277-283 , July 2003

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