The present chapter aims at providing an overview of the current state of the art as to the conceptualization, diagnosis, epidemiology, etiological correlates, and treatment of personality disorders (PDs).
Alain, Dervaux+2 more
core +7 more sources
Personality Disorders in Persons with Gender Identity Disorder [PDF]
Background.Investigations in the field of gender identity disorder (GID) have been mostly related to psychiatric comorbidity and severe psychiatric disorders, but have focused less on personality and personality disorders (PDs).Aims.The aim of the study was to assess the presence of PDs in persons with GID as compared to cisgendered (a cisgender person
Duisin, Dragana+5 more
openaire +5 more sources
To what extent does severity of loneliness vary among different mental health diagnostic groups: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Loneliness is a common and debilitating problem in individuals with mental health disorders. However, our knowledge on severity of loneliness in different mental health diagnostic groups and factors associated with loneliness is poor, thus limiting the ...
Alasmawi, K+5 more
core +2 more sources
Identity development in adolescents with mental problems [PDF]
Background: In the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), "Identity" is an essential diagnostic criterion for personality disorders (self-related personality functioning) in the alternative approach to the diagnosis of personality ...
Goth, Kirstin+4 more
core +1 more source
Practitioner review: Borderline personality disorder in adolescence: Recent conceptualization, intervention, and implications for clinical practice [PDF]
The past decade has seen an unprecedented increase in research activity on personality disorders in adolescents. The increase in research activity, in addition to major nosological systems legitimizing the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder ...
Fonagy, P, Sharp, C
core +1 more source
Antecedents of personality disorder in childhood and adolescence: toward an integrative developmental model [PDF]
Antecedents of personality disorder in childhood and adolescence have been a neglected area in official taxonomies of mental disorders such as the International Classification of Diseases or the different editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
De Clercq, Barbara, De Fruyt, Filip
core +2 more sources
Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders [PDF]
Personality is influenced by genetic and environmental factors1 and associated with mental health. However, the underlying genetic determinants are largely unknown.
A Okbay+82 more
core +3 more sources
The Classification of Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders in the ICD-11 [PDF]
Background To present the rationale for the new Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRD) grouping in the Mental and Behavioural Disorders chapter of the Eleventh Revision of the World Health Organization’s International Classification of ...
Atmaca, M.+13 more
core +7 more sources
It is now respectable to read about personality disorder. It was not always so. Despite the impossibility of practising psychiatry without being aware of the term and the subject matter it describes, it was not appropriate in good psychiatric circles to mention the subject unless presaged by a pause and pronounced with a mocking inflexion that ...
openaire +3 more sources
Medication overuse headache, addiction and personality pathology: a controlled study by SWAP-200 [PDF]
Background: Medication Overuse Headache (MOH) is a type of chronic headache, whose mechanisms are still unknown. Some empirical investigations examining the addiction-like behaviors and processes, as well as personality characteristics underlying MOH ...
Cristofalo, Patrizia+8 more
core +1 more source