The Neuropsychopharmacology of Personality Disorders

Emil F. Coccaro
Department of Psychiatry
Medical College of Pennsylvania at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129

and

Larry J. Siever
Department of Psychiatry
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York 10029.


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published 2000