Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 454-458 , November 2003

Borderline personality and psychotropic medication prescription in an outpatient psychiatry clinic

  • Randy A Sansone

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Randy A. Sansone, M.D., Sycamore Primary Care Center, 2115 Leiter Rd, Miamisburg, OH 45342, USA
    • Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry Education, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH, USA
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  • Dorota Rytwinski

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA
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  • George A Gaither

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA

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PII: S0010-440X(03)00147-0

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00147-0

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 454-458 , November 2003

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