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Assessing Suicidal Youth With Antisocial, Borderline, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Assessing Suicidal Youth With Antisocial, Borderline, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

  In Review Paul S Links, MD1, Brent Gould, MD2, Ruwan Ratnayake3     Objective: This paper has 3 objectives. First, we review the epidemiologic evidence for the association between suicidal behaviour and suicide in individuals diagnosed with anti- social, borderline, or narcissistic personality disorder. Second, we examine whether any potentially modifiable risk factors are associated with these diagnoses, based on existing empirical evidence. Last, we discuss clinical approaches to assessing youth with antisocial, borderline, or narcissistic personality disorder presenting…

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Antisocial personality disorder in incarcerated offenders: Psychiatric comorbidity and quality of life

Antisocial personality disorder in incarcerated offenders: Psychiatric comorbidity and quality of life

  ANNALS OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY 2010;22(2):113-120 RESEARCH ARTICLE Donald W. Black, MD Department of Psychiatry University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Iowa Department of Corrections Iowa Medical and Classification Center Oakdale, IA, USA Tracy Gunter, MD Department of Psychiatry and Neurology St. Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO, USA Peggy Loveless, PhD Jeff Allen, PhD Department of Psychiatry University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Iowa City,…

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The Ethics of a Genetic Screening Study for Antisocial Personality Disorder With Mesoamericans

The Ethics of a Genetic Screening Study for Antisocial Personality Disorder With Mesoamericans

CASE STUDY   The Ethics of a Genetic Screening Study for Antisocial Personality Disorder With Mesoamericans Case Study in the Ethics of Mental Health Research Maria-Virginia Rodriguez, MD, FACS Hospital Nacional Rosales, San Salvador, El Salvador. Aspects of the research project described in this case study, including the precise condition under study, have been made anonymous to preserve the confiden- tiality of some of the people involved. Send reprint requests to Maria-Virginia Rodriguez MD, FACS, AP-01-546, San Salvador, El Salvador….

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Borderline and Antisocial Personality Scores as Mediators Between Attachment and Intimate Partner Violence

Borderline and Antisocial Personality Scores as Mediators Between Attachment and Intimate Partner Violence

  Anne Marie Mauricio, PhD Jenn-Yun Tein, PhD Arizana Prevention Research Center Arizana  State  University Frederick G. Lopez, PhD University of Houston,  TX   Court-mandated male batterers (n = 192) attending an intervention program completed measures examining adult attachment orientations (anxious and avoidant), personality disorders (borderline and antisocial), type of violence (psychological and physical), and social desirability. Structural equation modeling was used to determine whether there were significant relationships between anxious attachment and physical and psychological violence that are mediated…

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