Depression and comorbid personality disorders relate to one another in three distinct ways: 1) personality disorders may precede the development of depression and render an individual vulnerable to depression; 2) depression may precede the personality disorder and foster the development of the perso
Comorbidity of depression and personality disorders
โ Scribed by Larry J. Siever
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 31 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
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