Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 3 , Pages 221-225 , May 2009

Early family environment, borderline personality symptoms, and somatic preoccupation among internal medicine outpatients

  • Randy A. Sansone

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45408, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45409, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry Education, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH 45429, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Sycamore Primary Care Center, Miamisburg, OH 45342, USA. Tel.: +1 937 384 6850; fax: +1 937 384 6938.
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  • Victoria R. Buckner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH 45429, USA
    • ,
  • Nighat A. Tahir

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH 45429, USA
    • ,
  • Michael W. Wiederman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Relations, Columbia College, Columbia, SC 29203, USA

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.08.002

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 50, Issue 3 , Pages 221-225 , May 2009

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