Personality disorders have a complex relationship with the law that in many ways reflects their complexity within the clinical and research communities. This paper addresses expert testimony about personality disorders, outlines how personality disorders are assessed in forensic cases, and describes how personality disorders are viewed in different legal contexts. Reasons are identified why per...

conclusions the findings of this study are in accordance with findings from previous studies, and generally show a meaningful association between schema, emotion regulation, dissociative experiences, and suicide ideation with borderline personality features. results the results showed a significant positive correlation between schema, emotion regulation, dissociative experiences and suicide ide...

Personality disorders have been documented in approximately 9 percent of the general U.S. population. Psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and brief interventions designed for use by family physicians can improve the health of patients with these disorders. Personality disorders are classified into clusters A, B, and C. Cluster A includes schizoid, schizotypal, and paranoid personality disorders. Cl...

BACKGROUND There have been no studies of the co-occurrence of personality and substance use disorders in young community-dwelling adults. AIMS To examine the association between DSM-IV personality disorders and substance use disorders in a large representative sample of young community-dwelling participants. METHOD Young Australian adults (n=1520, mean age=24.1 years) were interviewed to de...

anxiety is one of the most controversial issues in mental disorders that its prevalence is increasing in today's society. preclinical anxiety that is causing some anxiety disorders in adults can help us in the prevention of mental disorders. in this paper an attempt has been made to have an analytical review of attachment anxiety and its significance in childhood and adulthood. attachment ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between "difficult" patient status and personality disorder. DESIGN A survey using the Diagnostic Interview for Personality Disorders. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-one patients nominated by 9 family medicine providers who subjectively experienced their care as difficult and 22 control subjects systematically selected from the same practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEAS...

The question of whether or not depressive personality disorder is a distinct disorder separate from mood disorders or other personality disorders has historically been debated by researchers and theorists and continues to be a topic of disagreement. Empirical studies reveal that only a modest relationship may exist between depressive personality disorder, mood disorders, and other personality d...

BACKGROUND The economic impact of personality disorders on UK health services is unknown. AIMS To test the hypothesis that people with personality disorders have higher mean health and non-health costs compared with those without personality disorders. METHOD Prospective cohort study design. A total of 303 general practice attenders were followed-up I year after they had been assessed for t...

Results: Patients with borderline personality disorder had a significantly higher co-occurrence of bipolar disorder (19.4%) than did patients with other personality disorders. However, this co-occurrence did not appear to affect the subsequent course of borderline personality disorder. Although only 8.2% of the borderline personality disorder patients developed new onsets of bipolar disorder, t...