Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 145-154 , March 2007

The interface between borderline personality disorder and bipolar spectrum disorders

  • Joel Paris

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada H3T 1E4
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • John Gunderson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02478, USA
    • ,
  • Igor Weinberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02478, USA

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 145-154 , March 2007

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