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Personality Disorders (9):
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Journal of Personality Disorders (25 Suppl) 2011
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Revue de l'infirmiere ()167 2011
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Revue de l'infirmiere ()166 2010
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We investigated whether child abuse-related complex PTSD--a severe form of PTSD with affect dysregulation and high comorbidity--showed similar brain volume reductions.
We used voxel-based morphometry to measure gray matter concentrations in referred outpatients with child abuse-related complex PTSD...
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PMID: 20673548
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I psychiatric disorders were assessed with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, and Axis II PDs were assessed with the Diagnostic Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders. The course of MDD was assessed with the Longitudinal Interval Follow-up Evaluation at 6 and 12 months and then yearly...
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PMID: 20584514
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The authors sought to review the various types of patients with psychological abnormalities who may present to the plastic surgeon and the psychological impact of various plastic surgery procedures on these patients.
After systematically searching the Embase and PubMed databases and following furthe...
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PMID: 21124167
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Revue de l'infirmiere ()165 2010
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Orvosi Hetilap (151)44 2010
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Body dysmorphic disorder causes significant suffering and serious impairment in psychosocial functions. However, this disease with dangerous risks is scarcely mentioned in the Hungarian medical literature. The objective of the author is to give a detailed review about this almost unknown, but relati...
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PMID: 20961842
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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The purpose of this study is to determine the self-perceived quality of life of abstinent patients with alcohol dependence disorder during the first month of treatment, and how the presence of personality disorders, psychological adjustment, and the level of craving affect this perception. For this...
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PMID: 21044479
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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We study the type of violence perpetrated and some indicators of psychopathology, such as personality disorders, previous psychiatric or psychological care, substance abuse and jealous behavior, among others. In addition, we examine the relationship between these variables and the fact that the men...
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PMID: 21044484
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The Symptom Validity Scale (FBS), based on the 567-item form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), has been shown to be a valid measure of symptom over-reporting. To extend its usefulness to the 370-item form, complete FBS scores (FBS) and FBS scores based on the 370-item fo...
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PMID: 20924982
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)5 2010
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Suicide is a global health priority. It is important to analyse the effects of investment in mental health services on suicide rates. This paper presents and discusses recent changes in suicide rates and diagnostic mix among clients of the mental health service in Auckland during a time of service g...
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PMID: 20863183
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The present study aimed to ascertain the occurrence of personality disorders (PD) in adolescent patients with anorexia (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) by means of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders (SCID-II).
99 female adolescent patients (57 AN - restrictive type, 17 A...
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PMID: 20809470
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The diagnosis and classification of personality disorders in adolescence remains a controversially discussed topic.
This review reports recent research findings on the comorbidity and the diagnosis of personality disorders in adolescence and on their neurobiological and neuropsychological correlates...
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PMID: 20809468
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NAA aviators and flight officers, when compared to their AA counterparts, evidenced significant and substantive effect size differences on facets measuring negative emotionality, interpersonal effectiveness, and goal-orientation. CONCLUSION: FFM facet differences between AA and NAA officers were onl...
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PMID: 20824993
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This paper explores five examples of envy, examining the similarities and differences between the clinical situations. The theory relating to envy is extensively reviewed and a critique of the Kleinian position is offered, suggesting that the aversion to separation and difference is not only prior t...
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PMID: 20883305
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)4 2010
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Taxonomic changes create strong emotions; the ones proposed for DSM5, though far from drastic, are no exception. The main diagnostic categories remain largely the same as in DSM-IV. Most of the modifications entail moving specific disorders from one section to another, deleting disorders that have h...
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PMID: 20645895
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These results suggest that eating disorder, avoidant personality disorder, and sequelae after child sexual abuse are potential targets for treatment that need further investigation.
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PMID: 20677852
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The goal of this naturalistic study was to examine heterogeneity among female and male civil psychiatric patients with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Participants were 567 patients drawn from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study (J. Monahan et al., 2001). The auth...
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PMID: 20677845
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We studied the reliability and validity of two versions (64 items and 32 items) of the Spanish translation of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-64 and IIP-32) and their usefulness as screening instruments for personality disorders in a sample of 190 outpatients and 66 healthy subjects. Pa...
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PMID: 20695809
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We applied different diagnostic rules for diagnosing personality disorders to the NESARC epidemiological study of over 40,000 individuals. Specifically, unlike previous NESARC publications, we required that each personality disorder criterion be associated with significant distress or impairment in...
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PMID: 20695803
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A series of recent epidemiological studies has assessed the prevalence of personality disorders in the general population. However, all these reports run a serious risk of overestimation. First, all research is based on problematic definitions in DSM-IV-TR, both for overall PD and for specific categ...
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PMID: 20695802
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These results suggest that internalizing and externalizing personality dimensions explain most of the associations between personality patterns and indicators of psychopathology and clinical dysfunction in adolescent patients....
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PMID: 20213247
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Academic Medicine (85)7 2010
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This study investigates whether data available at the time of residency application can be used to predict more accurately future problems of performance, both during and after residency.
The authors identified all residents with reported problematic behavior across 20 years (1987-2007) at a single...
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PMID: 20592510
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Psychiatria Danubina (22)2 2010
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PTSD is a complex disorder, which frequently occurs in comorbidity with anxious disorder, personality disorder, addiction or substance abuse disorder, depressive disorder with or without psychotic symptoms and psychotic disorder. PTSD symptoms may result from deregulation of several different neurot...
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PMID: 20562783
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Psychiatria Danubina (22)2 2010
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We define personality disorders as maladaptive syndromes developed trough person-environment interaction. We conceptualize maladaptation as a failure of integrative functions of personality (i.e., those that carry out adaptive processes) caused by strong biogenetic dispositions or by pathological en...
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PMID: 20562740
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Folia Parasitologica (57)2 2010
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We analysed for effects of the additional diagnosis of a personality disorder in the patients. Psychiatrically, a patient can meet the criteria of a personality disorder additionally to any of the mentioned primary diagnoses. We applied logistic regression and cross-table statistics, separated group...
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PMID: 20608475
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The present study examines the psychometric properties of the German version of the Eating Disorder Inventory EDI-2 (1997) in 371 adolescents aged 13 to 18 years. Internal consistency, convergent and divergent validity were examined and a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. Internal consiste...
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PMID: 20464663
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Future Oncology (6)5 2010
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Personality refers to an individual's enduring and pervasive personal motivation, emotion, interpersonal style, attitudes and behavior that are stable over a long time after young adulthood. In relation to the cancer trajectory, three basic and one other personality traits have been studied with som...
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PMID: 20465385
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Schizophrenia Research (118)1-3 2010
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We examined whether outpatients could attain benefits from an intrinsically motivating instructional approach which (a) presents learning materials in a meaningful game-like context, (b) personalizes elements of the learning materials into themes of high interest value, and (c) offers choices so pat...
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PMID: 19716270
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This paper reports on a study of nurses' and non-nurses' perceptions of labels of mental illness and personality disorder in forensic services in the UK. The objectives of the study were to establish if differences in perceptions existed within, and between, the two groups of professionals. The rese...
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PMID: 20394480
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We demonstrate a means of conservatively combining self and peer data regarding personality pathology and interpersonal behavior through structural equation modeling, focusing on avoidant personality disorder traits as well as those of two comparison personality disorders (dependent and narcissistic...
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PMID: 20455606
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We created "One-Euro-Jobs" for patients with chronic mental illnesses within regular employments in the confinements of our clinic. The choice of workplace was carried out according to the individual experience and knowledge and included the library, central buying and post office. Until now 15 ment...
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PMID: 20221982
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Surveys among Israeli mental health professionals found that almost half of them doubt the validity of dissociative disorders (DD) and have no experience in either diagnosing or treating DD patients. These findings, in line with arguments that DDs are socially construed North American phenomena, cal...
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PMID: 20458202
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Out-patient psychotherapy and day hospital psychotherapy are the optimal treatments for patients with cluster B personality disorders in terms of cost per recovered patient-year and cost per QALY....
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PMID: 20435967
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The historical basis of personality assessment that led to the development of today's approaches and applications is described. The modern era of personality assessment began in late nineteenth-century Europe. Early twentieth-century highlights included the development of projective techniques like...
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PMID: 20192801
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In total, 40% of all patients in secondary care suffered from at least one personality disorder. Regression modelling showed personality pathology accounted for a greater degree of global psychopathology than psychosis, alcohol or drug dependence, but was associated with anxiety disorders. CONCLUSIO...
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PMID: 19543844
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Generally, the results are in line with the conclusion that more disturbed patients with SP both begin and end treatment at a higher symptomatic level but with a similar degree of improvement. There is, however, little clinically or theoretically relevant knowledge to be gained from existing studies...
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PMID: 20055730
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The total sample GSI effect size was 0.74 indicating a moderate to large effect size (ranging from 0.67 in depressed to 0.74 in neurotic and personality disorder patients), which increased to 1.02 after exclusion of pre-treatment no-cases (ranging from 0.98 to 1.11 in depressed and personality disor...
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PMID: 20392133
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BAGT is possibly an effective outpatient continuation therapy for women with severe personality disorders, but because of limitations of this study, these results warrant a larger randomized study....
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PMID: 20392134
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Psychological Medicine (40)4 2010
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IQ deficits in each diagnostic category may reflect different functional patterns and temporal vicissitudes of the specific pathogenetic processes involved in different mental disorders....
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PMID: 19656427
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We review the successes and failures of this pioneering programme a decade after its introduction and conclude that although much has been gained from the experiment--particularly in developing services for those with personality disorder in general--it has been less effective in managing those whom...
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PMID: 20593601
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Debate continues about whether personality, both normal and disordered, can change significantly or is mainly stable across the life span. One issue that receives little attention is the degree to which personality stability coefficients may be influenced by attenuation due to measurement error. The...
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PMID: 20307136
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Compared with controls, GSP patients had significantly reduced amygdalar (13%) and hippocampal (8%) size. The reduction in the size of the amygdala was statistically significant for men but not women. Smaller right-sided hippocampal volumes of GSP patients were significantly related to stronger diso...
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PMID: 20184810
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Between 1967 and 2008, 13 Hindi movies contained referrals to or depictions of ECT. By and large, the depictions were inaccurate, distorted, and dramatized. Electroconvulsive therapy was administered to punish, to obliterate identity, to induce insanity, and for other rarely clinically valid indicat...
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PMID: 20190596
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The goals of this cross-sectional study were to explore correlates of walking speed in a large wide age-ranged population and to identify factors affecting lower walking speed at older ages. Participants were 3,872 community-dwelling adults in the first follow-up of the SardiNIA study who completed...
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PMID: 20051464
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The presence of depression and personality disorder had significant independent detrimental effects on infant care practices and maternal involvement with the baby, while depression alone had a negative effect on quality of the home environment. CONCLUSION: Women with depression are less likely to u...
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PMID: 19466372
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We review the literature on pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and describe a significant criterion problem related to four inconsistencies in phenotypic descriptions and taxonomic models across clinical theory, research, and practice; psychiatric diagnosis; and soci...
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PMID: 20001728
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Wiener klinische Wochenschrift (122)5-6 2010
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Consequences for diagnostic initial interviews in connection with the role of the educational level for the therapeutic alliance are discussed. Further, the impact of economic aspects on therapy engagement is discussed....
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PMID: 20361380
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Psychosomatics (51)2 2010
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Neurology consultants suggested that physical exam findings and behavioral changes could be accounted for by cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. This syndrome involves dysfunction of the cerebellum, including classic cerebellar findings, in addition to cognitive difficulties and affective/perso...
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PMID: 20332293
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Although conceptualizations of perfectionism have emphasized adaptive as well as maladaptive expressions of the construct, how these different dimensions or types of perfectionists might be reflected in comprehensive personality assessment instruments is unknown. An initial sample of 267 university...
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PMID: 20155565
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A 43-year-old woman one day experienced a dissociative fugue which she could not recall. She was married, nulliparous, with no history of dissociative disorder or other psychiatric disorders. She had been sexually abused during late childhood-early adolescence. She was examined thoroughly from both...
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PMID: 20391183
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Previous research has been equivocal on personality trait and psychopathology differences between temporal lobe and other types of epilepsy, as well as between patients with right and left temporal lobe seizure foci. In this study, personality differences between patients with right temporal (n=23),...
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PMID: 20022813
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Recent research has indicated that developmental changes in the personality traits of neuroticism and impulsivity correlate with changes in problem drinking during emerging and young adulthood. However, it remains unclear what potential mechanisms, or mediators, could account for these associations....
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PMID: 20141246
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