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8 - Differentiating Bipolar II Disorder from Personality-based Dysregulation Disorders

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2018

By
Joel Paris  and
Adam Bayes
Edited by
Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Bipolar II Disorder
Modelling, Measuring and Managing
 , pp. 77 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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