Background: We aim at presenting a clinical case of 37-year-old patient, who has been nun for several years and the moment can no longer adapt to environment in which she lives requirements everyday life. The perspective this analysis is both psychiatric one, explaining diagnosis Axis II Histrionic Immature Personality Disorder, but also overlap with dissociative conversion disorder, explanator...

BACKGROUND Women with borderline personality disorder have conflictual interpersonal relations that may extend to disrupted patterns of interaction with their infants. AIMS To assess how women with borderline personality disorder engage with their 12 to 18-month-old infants in separation-reunion episodes. METHOD We videotaped mother-infant interactions in separation-reunion episodes of the ...

OBJECTIVE Comorbid anxiety disorder is reported to increase suicidality in bipolar disorder. However, studies of the impact of anxiety disorders on suicidal behavior in mood disorders have shown mixed results. The presence of personality disorders, often comorbid with anxiety and bipolar disorders, may explain these inconsistencies. This study examined the impact of comorbid Cluster B personali...

BACKGROUND Cultural and personality factors might contribute to the clinical differences of psychiatric patients all over the world including China. One cultural oriented Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) designed to measure normal personality traits, might be specifically associated with different personality disorder functioning styles. METHODS We therefore have invited 20...

July 01, 2006 | Bipolar Disorder [1], Personality Disorders [2], Schizoaffective [3], Schizophrenia [4], Borderline Personality [5], Antisocial Personality Disorder [6], Mood Disorders [7], Bipolar II Disorder [8], Mania [9], Forensic Psychiatry [10], Neuropsychiatry [11], Addiction [12], Alcohol Abuse [13], Dysthymia [14] By Silvio Bellino, MD [15], Erika Paradiso, MD [16], and Filippo Bogetto...