Personality Disorders - Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory.

30 Aug 2009 The construct of narcissism is inconsistently defined across clinical theory, social-personality psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis. Two problems were identified that impede integration of research and clinical findings regarding narcissistic ... Read more...

Countertransference reactions to adolescents with eating disorders: relationships to clinician and patient factors.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Clinical report suggests that therapists have strong and sometimes difficult-to-manage reactions to patients with eating disorders (EDs); however, systematic research is largely absent. The purpose of this study was to explore the ... Read more...

Structural personality organization as assessed with theory driven profile interpretation of the dutch short form of the MMPI predicts dropout and treatment response in brief cognitive behavioral group therapy for axis I disorders.

30 Aug 2009 We investigated the validity of theory driven profile interpretation of the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) Dutch Short Form (DSFM; Eurelings-Bontekoe, Onnink, Williams, & Snellen, 2008) as a measure of personality organization (PO) in a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Disorders - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. 30 Aug 2009
• Countertransference reactions to adolescents with eating disorders: relationships to clinician and patient factors. 30 Aug 2009
• Structural personality organization as assessed with theory driven profile interpretation of the dutch short form of the MMPI predicts dropout and treatment response in brief cognitive behavioral group therapy for axis I disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Research in child psychoanalysis: twenty-five-year follow-up of a severely disturbed child. 30 Jul 2009
• The internal obstructive object in the analysis of a woman who envies her rapist. 29 Jun 2009
• What is being assessed and why it matters: the impact of transient error on trait research. 29 Jun 2009
• Personality disorders: understanding and managing the difficult patient in neurology practice. 21 Jun 2009
• Chitrachanchala (pictures of unstable mind): mental health themes in Kannada cinema. 30 May 2009
• Personality and self-reported treatment effectiveness in depression. 30 May 2009
• [Diagnosis and therapy of personality disorders] 2 May 2009
• Therapeutic Assessment with children: a pilot study of treatment acceptability and outcome. 29 Apr 2009
• [Self-harm and personality disorders] 28 Apr 2009
• [General principles in psychotherapy of personality disorders] 4 Apr 2009
• Cost-effectiveness of nidotherapy for comorbid personality disorder and severe mental illness: randomized controlled trial. 30 Mar 2009
• Prognosis after adolescent suicide attempt: mental health, psychiatric treatment, and suicide attempts in a nine-year follow-up study. 30 Mar 2009
• Psychoanalysis of avoidant personality disorder: a systematic case study of process and outcome. 30 Mar 2009
• The neurobiology of personality disorders: implications for psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009
• The Yale-Brown-Cornell eating disorder scale in women with anorexia nervosa: what is it measuring? 30 Mar 2009
• Use of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) for assessment of personality in chronic fatigue syndrome. 27 Feb 2009
• Therapist characteristics influencing the quality of alliance in long-term psychotherapy. 27 Feb 2009

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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