Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 298-306 , July 2006

Disentangling depressive personality disorder from avoidant, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders

  • Steven K. Huprich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Mark Zimmerman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA
    • ,
  • Iwona Chelminski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 298-306 , July 2006

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