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As a supervisor of a day-and-night treatment program and a day-centre for severe neurotic, narcissistic, borderline, schizoid and prepsychotic personalities, I was very much impressed by the differences in psychopathology, behaviour and interpersonal relationships between these different diagnostic personality categories and the need to adopt a specific treatment strategy for each of them.
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Verhaest, S. (1982). Differences in Psychopathology of and Treatment Strategy with Borderline and Narcissistic Personalities. In: Pines, M., Rafaelsen, L. (eds) The Individual and the Group. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8154-9_30
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