Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 2 , Pages 138-147 , March 2004

Developmental antecedents of borderline personality disorder

  • Margareth I Helgeland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • Sogn Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Margareth I. Helgeland, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1094, Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • Svenn Torgersen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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☆ Supported by grants from the Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation and from the Regional Center for Child and Adolescent Psychology, Region East and South.

PII: S0010-440X(03)00163-9

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2003.09.001

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 2 , Pages 138-147 , March 2004

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