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Empirical Studies

How people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder experience relationships to oneself and to others. A qualitative in-depth study

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Article: 2152220 | Received 24 Aug 2021, Accepted 22 Nov 2022, Published online: 30 Nov 2022

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