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- Title
Affective instability as rapid cycling: theoretical and clinical implications for borderline personality and bipolar spectrum disorders.
- Authors
Mackinnon, Dean F; Pies, Ronald
- Abstract
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders guidelines provide only a partial solution to the nosology and treatment of bipolar disorder in that disorders with common symptoms and biological correlates may be categorized separately because of superficial differences related to behavior, life history, and temperament. The relationship is explored between extremely rapid switching forms of bipolar disorder, in which manic and depressive symptoms are either mixed or switch rapidly, and forms of borderline personality disorder in which affective lability is a prominent symptom.
- Publication
Bipolar disorders, 2006, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1398-5647
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-5618.2006.00283.x