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                                Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Borderline personality disorder and the conversational model : a clinician’s manual / [edited
by] Russell Meares ... [et al.].

      p. cm. — (The Norton series on interpersonal neurobiology) (A Norton professional book)

 Includes bibliographical references and index.

 ISBN 978-0-393-70783-0 (pbk.)

1.  Borderline personality disorder.  I. Meares, Russell.

 RC569.5.B67B687 2012

 616.85’852—dc23

                                                          2012024203

eISBN: 978-0-393-70859-2

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