Screening for Personality Disorders
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy for personality disorders.
In 1990, Gerald Klerman argued persuasively, and surely noncontroversially, that psychiatric patients have a right to effective treatment (1). Klerman referred to litigation in which a patient hospitalized for 7 months at Chestnut Lodge held the hospital negligent for providing only intensive psychotherapy without adding antidepressant medication in spite of a marked worsening of his depressive...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality Disorders
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0885-579X
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2007.21.2.179