Personality Disorders - Classification
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

An integrative dimensional classification of personality disorder.

30 Aug 2009 Psychological assessment research concerns how to describe psychological dysfunction in ways that are both valid and useful. Recent advances in assessment research hold the promise of facilitating significant improvements in description and ... Read more...

Personality subtypes of suicidal adults.

30 Aug 2009 Research into personality factors related to suicidality suggests substantial variability among suicide attempters. A potentially useful approach that accounts for this complexity is personality subtyping. As part of a large sample looking at ... Read more...

Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.

30 Jul 2009 Evaluation of the validity of personality disorder (PD) diagnostic constructs is important for the impending revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Prior factor analytic studies have tested these constructs in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Disorders - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• An integrative dimensional classification of personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Personality subtypes of suicidal adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• Using the five-factor model to identify a new personality disorder domain: the case for experiential permeability. 30 May 2009
• Disentangling impulsiveness, aggressiveness and impulsive aggression: an empirical approach using self-report measures. 20 May 2009
• [Diagnosis and therapy of personality disorders] 2 May 2009
• The consequences of depressive affect on functioning in relation to Cluster B personality disorder features. 29 Apr 2009
• Dimensions of personality: clinicians' perspectives. 30 Mar 2009
• The future of personality disorders in DSM-V? 30 Mar 2009
• To sum or not to sum: taxometric analysis with ordered categorical assessment items. 27 Feb 2009
• Errors of logic and scholarship concerning dissociative identity disorder. 27 Feb 2009
• Diagnosis of borderline personality disorder in China: current status and future directions. 30 Jan 2009
• Childhood antecedents of personality disorder: an alternative perspective. 30 Dec 2008
• Commentary: personality disorders and criminal law. 30 Dec 2008
• An empirical examination of three models of the interpersonal functioning of patients with borderline personality disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• [Personality disorders: a dimensional approach] 30 Dec 2008
• What should become of depressive personality disorder in DSM-V? 30 Dec 2008
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder: subclassification based on co-morbidity. 30 Nov 2008
• Regional analysis of self-reported personality disorder criteria. 29 Nov 2008
• Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology: II. Further articulation of a comprehensive unified trait structure. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Personality Disorders'

Definition: A major deviation from normal patterns of behavior.

Descriptor UI: D010554

Alternative terms: Personality Disorders; Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality Disorders; Personality Disorder, Avoidant; Personality Disorders, Avoidant; Inadequate Personality; Personality, Inadequate; Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Narcissistic; As If Personality; Personality, As If; Impulse-Ridden Personality; Impulse Ridden Personality; Personality, Impulse-Ridden;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.675;

Online Note: use PERSONALITY DISORDERS to search AS IF PERSONALITY 1975-78 & IMPULSE-RIDDEN PERSONALITY & INADEQUATE PERSONALITY 1968-78

History Note: 68; AS IF PERSONALITY was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1975-78; IMPULSE-RIDDEN PERSONALITY & INADEQUATE PERSONALITY were see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-78