Personality disorders and body weight
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Foreign-body ingestion in patients with personality disorders.
Received September 29, 2005; revised February 10, 2006; accepted February 17, 2006. From the Dept. of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. Send correspondence and reprint requests to David F. Gitlin, M.D. e-mail: [email protected] Copyright 2007 The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine The medical care of patients who engage in repeated acts of deliberate self-harm can prove co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economics & Human Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1570-677X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2013.10.002