Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 570-578 , November 2008

What do all personality disorders have in common? Ineffectiveness and uncooperativeness

  • Fernando Gutiérrez

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Service, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, and IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Ricard Navinés

      Affiliations

    • Pharmacology Research Unit (URF), Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) and Drug Abuse and Psychiatry Department, Hospital del Mar, 08003-Barcelona, Spain
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  • Puri Navarro

      Affiliations

    • Perinatal Psychiatric Unit and Gender Research, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Luisa García-Esteve

      Affiliations

    • Perinatal Psychiatric Unit and Gender Research, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Susana Subirá

      Affiliations

    • Department of Adult, Adolescent and Child Psychopathology, Faculty of Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Marta Torrens

      Affiliations

    • Pharmacology Research Unit (URF), Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) and Drug Abuse and Psychiatry Department, Hospital del Mar, 08003-Barcelona, Spain
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  • Rocío Martín-Santos

      Affiliations

    • Pharmacology Research Unit (URF), Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) and Drug Abuse and Psychiatry Department, Hospital del Mar, 08003-Barcelona, Spain
    • Psychiatry Department, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

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 This work was undertaken in part with grants from Instituto Carlos III: GO3/184, Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS): 430403561, 2006, Principal Investigator (PI): R. Martín-Santos; and FIS 03/0464, PI: F. Gutiérrez.

PII: S0010-440X(08)00068-0

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.04.007

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 570-578 , November 2008

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