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Personality disorder: a new global perspective

Personality disorder: a new global perspective

World Psychiatry. 2010 Feb; 9(1): 56–60. PMCID: PMC2816919 PMID: 20148162 PETER TYRER,1,2 ROGER MULDER,1,3 MIKE CRAWFORD,1,2 GILES NEWTON-HOWES,4 ERIK SIMONSEN,1,5 DAVID NDETEI,6 NESTOR KOLDOBSKY,7 ANDREA FOSSATI,8 JOSEPH MBATIA,9 and BARBARA BARRETT10 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Personality disorder is now being accepted as an important condition in mainstream psychiatry across the world. Although it often remains unrecognized in ordinary practice, research studies have shown it…

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Co-Occurring Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders: A Single Syndrome?

Co-Occurring Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders: A Single Syndrome?

Richard C. Howard* Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK *Corresponding author Richard C. Howard, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nerobergstrasse 22, Wiesbaden, Germany, Tel: 49 611 527264; Email: richard   Submitted: 04 October 2017 Accepted: 16 November 2017 OPEN ACCESS Published: 18 November 2017 Copyright © 2017 Howard ISSN: 2374-0124 Abstract It has been proposed that antisocial/borderline personality disorder (PD) might, for the purposes of classification, etiology and treatment, be considered as a single syndrome. This…

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Avoidant Personality Disorder, Traits, and Type

Avoidant Personality Disorder, Traits, and Type

Wesleyan University WesScholar  Division III Faculty Publications                                                       Natural Sciences and Mathematics   April 2012   Charles A. Sanislow, Katelin da Cruz, May O. Gianoli,  Elizabeth M. Reagan Wesleyan University, csanislow@wesleyan.edu Recommended Citation Sanislow, C. A., da Cruz, K., Gianoli, M. O., & Reagan, E. R. (2012). “Avoidant Personality Disorder, Traits, and Type” The Oxford Handbook for Personality Disorders. Ed. T. A. Widiger. New York: Oxford University Press (pp. 549-565).     This Contribution to Book is brought to you for…

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Comorbid psychiatric diagnosis and psychological correlates of eating disorders in dance students

Comorbid psychiatric diagnosis and psychological correlates of eating disorders in dance students

Author links open overlay panelChao-YuLiuaMei-Chih MegTsengbcChin-HaoChangdDavidFangeMing-BeenLeec https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2015.01.019Get rights and content Open Access funded by Formosan Medical Association Under a Creative Commons license Background/Purpose Although dancers are at risk for eating disorders (EDs), little is known about the features of EDs among the dance population. This study explores the prevalence of EDs, and their psychiatric comorbidities and correlates in dance students. Methods In total, 442 female high-school dance students participated in a two-phase survey. All participants completed screening questionnaires as well…

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Co-Occurring Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders: A Single Syndrome?

Co-Occurring Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders: A Single Syndrome?

Review Article   Richard C. Howard* Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK *Corresponding author Richard C. Howard, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nerobergstrasse 22, Wiesbaden, Germany, Tel: 49 611 527264; Email: richard   Submitted: 04 October 2017 Accepted: 16 November 2017 Published: 18 November 2017 Copyright © 2017 Howard ISSN: 2374-0124     Abstract It has been proposed that antisocial/borderline personality disorder (PD) might, for the purposes of classification, etiology and treatment, be considered as a…

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The Relationship of Personality to Eating Disorders

The Relationship of Personality to Eating Disorders

  Mohammad Ali Besharat, PhD1   1 Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran   Corresponding author: Mohammad Ali Besharat, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Tehran. P. O. Box 14155-6456, Tehran, Iran; e-mail: besharat@ut.ac.ir This paper highlights a variety of personality disorders in individuals with eating disorder and also emphasizes the importance of identifying clinically meaningful eating disorders subtypes based on concurrent personality disorder. The relationship between personality disorders and eating disorders is an important issue as this…

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Detection of comorbidity with Borderline Personality Disorder in patients with Bipolar Disorders

Detection of comorbidity with Borderline Personality Disorder in patients with Bipolar Disorders

Riconoscimento della comorbidità con il disturbo borderline di personalità nei pazienti affetti da disturbo bipolare Lai, S. Pirarba, F. Pinna, B. Carpiniello Department of Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Clinic, University of Cagliari, Italy     Summary Background Difficulties are frequently encountered in distinguishing between Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, with dif- ferential diagnosis being complicated by the presence of comor- bidity. The present study aims to evaluate the utility of the Mil- lon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III…

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Comorbidity of Personality Disorders in Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Research

Comorbidity of Personality Disorders in Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Research

     Oddgeir Friborg 1, 2 Monica Martinussen 3 Sabine Kaiser 1 Karl Tore Øvergård 1 Jan H. Rosenvinge 1   1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway. 2 Psychiatric Research Centre of Northern Norway, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø. 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, University of Tromsø, Norway.   Declaration of interest: None of the authors have any conflicting interests. Corresponding author…

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Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

      Diana Diamond City University of New York and Weill Cornell Medical College Kenneth N. Levy Pennsylvania State University and Weill Cornell Medical College John F. Clarkin Weill Cornell Medical College Melitta Fischer-Kern Medical University of Vienna Nicole M. Cain Long Island University –  Brooklyn Stephan Doering Medical University of Vienna Susanne Hörz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Anna Buchheim University of Innsbruck   We investigated attachment representations and the capacity for mentalization in a sample of adult female borderline patients…

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Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

Attachment and Mentalization in Female Patients With Comorbid Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder

    Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment © 2014 American Psychological Association 2014, Vol. 5, No. 4, 428 – 433   1949-2715/14/$12.00    http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000065 Diana Diamond, City University of New York and Weill Cornell Medical College Kenneth N. Levy, Pennsylvania State University and Weill Cornell Medical College John F. Clarkin, Weill Cornell Medical College Melitta Fischer-Kern, Medical University of Vienna Nicole M. Cain, Long Island University –  Brooklyn Stephan Doering,  Medical University of Vienna Susanne Hörz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Anna Buchheim,  University…

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