The troubled life and death of William Thomas Green Morton has been described in several texts. His first public demonstration of ether anesthesia was the highpoint of a life that was less than successful in many of his endeavors. Close examination of this life reveals a pattern of behavior that progresses from narcissistic traits to narcissistic personality pathology. This retrospective psychi...

BACKGROUND The validity of traditional categorical personality disorder diagnoses is currently re-evaluated from a continuous perspective, and the evolving DSM-V classification may describe personality disorders dimensionally. The utility of dimensional personality assessment, however, is unclear in violent offenders with severe personality pathology. METHODS The temperament structure of 114 ...

ing the long psychological report is inadequate to present the evidence on which the psychologist (M.P.B.) came to the conclusion that the test data were those of an ". . . unusually bright and talented, intellectually intact, paranoid schizophrenic." The most definite traits indicative of such a diagnosis were secretiveness, extreme autism, and grandiosity. The psychologist's conclusions were ...

OBJECTIVES This study investigates: (1) which personality traits are typical of medical students as compared to other students, and (2) which personality traits predict medical student performance in pre-clinical years. DESIGN This paper reports a cross-sectional inventory study of students in nine academic majors and a prospective longitudinal study of one cohort of medical students assessed...