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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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Integrative treatment of Personality Disorder. Part I: Psychotherapy

Integrative treatment of Personality Disorder. Part I: Psychotherapy

Psychiatria Danubina, 2017; Vol. 29, No. 1, pp 2-13                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Review © Medicinska naklada – Zagreb, Croatia   Mirjana Divac Jovanovic1 & Dragan Svrakic2 1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, Serbia 2Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, USA   received: 24.01.2017;                      revised: 15.02.2017;                       accepted: 22.02.2017   SUMMARY In this paper, we outline the concept of integrative therapy of borderline personality, also referred to as fragmented personality, which we consider to be…

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Historical roots of histrionic personality disorder

Historical roots of histrionic personality disorder

Front Psychol. 2015; 6: 1463. Published online 2015 Sep 25. doi:  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01463 PMCID: PMC4585318 PMID: 26441812 Filipa Novais,1,* Andreia Araújo,2 and Paula Godinho1 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer Abstract Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the most ambiguous diagnostic categories in psychiatry. Hysteria is a classical term that includes a wide variety of psychopathological states. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks blamed a displaced womb, for many women’s afflictions. Several researchers from the 18th and…

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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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Psychopathy in women: theoretical and clinical perspectives

Psychopathy in women: theoretical and clinical perspectives

Rolf Wynn,1,2 Marita H Høiseth,1 and Gunn Pettersen3 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Prior research on psychopathy has primarily focused on the problem in men. Only a few studies have examined whether psychopathy even exists in women, and if so, how the disorder manifests itself in them. This paper presents a narrative review of the literature on gender and psychopathy. We briefly discuss why this…

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Illuminating the Relationship Between Personality Disorder and Violence: Contributions of the General Aggression Model

Illuminating the Relationship Between Personality Disorder and Violence: Contributions of the General Aggression Model

Psychology of Violence                                                                                                                                     © 2011 American Psychological  Association 2011, Vol. 1, No. 3,  230 –244                                                                                                                        2152-0828/11/$12.00    DOI: 10.1037/a0024089   Flora Gilbert Monash University Michael Daffern Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, and Rampton Hospital   Introduction Although a consensus exists among mental health professionals that certain personality disorders are associated with an increased propensity for violence, uncertainties regarding the nature and extent of this relationship persist. Previous approaches to studying the personality disorder-violence relationship are also hampered by…

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder: A Current Review

Schizotypal Personality Disorder: A Current Review

Daniel R. Rosell, M.D., Ph.D,1,2 Shira E. Futterman, Psy.D,1,2 Antonia McMaster, B.A,1,2 and Larry J. Siever, M.D1,2 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Curr Psychiatry Rep See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract The study of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) is important clinically, as it is understudied, challenging to treat, often under-recognized or misdiagnosed, and associated with significant functional impairment. SPD also represents…

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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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