A closer look at a contested label: borderline personality disorder
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A closer look at a contested label: borderline personality disorder

Kathy Oxtoby Health journalist

To provide empathetic and consistent patient care, nurses may need to look beyond the controversial label of borderline personality disorder

As a label, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is complicated, controversial and contested.

Mental Health Practice. 27, 5, 6-7. doi: 10.7748/mhp.27.5.6.s2

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