Although Professor Maden’s article was only 100 words long, it contained some profound and, I think, unfair and unsubstantiated, statements. Where is the evidence that patients with severe antisocial personality disorders who do not want to be treated, like many of those detained in the dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) unit at Broadmoor Hospital, where Professor Maden is the cli...

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...

Although Professor Maden’s article was only 100 words long, it contained some profound and, I think, unfair and unsubstantiated, statements. Where is the evidence that patients with severe antisocial personality disorders who do not want to be treated, like many of those detained in the dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) unit at Broadmoor Hospital, where Professor Maden is the cli...

The Axis II Work Group of the Task Force on DSM-IV has expressed concern that antisocial personality disorder (APD) criteria are too long and cumbersome and that they focus on antisocial behaviors rather than personality traits central to traditional conceptions of psychopathy and to international criteria. We describe an alternative to the approach taken in the rev. 3rd ed. of the Diagnostic a...

Materials and methods: The participants were 220 individuals – 38 men and 137 women – selected from psychiatric and psychological clinics in Tabriz, Iran. Among the participants, 153 individuals were diagnosed with cluster B personality disorder (44 with borderline disorder, 16 with antisocial disorder, 56 with histrionic disorder and 37 with narcissistic personality disorder). The remaining 67...

OBJECTIVE To examine the sociodemographic, behavioral, and psychiatric correlates of cruelty to animals in the US. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were derived from a nationally representative sample of adults residing in the US Structured psychiatric interviews (N=43,093) were completed by trained lay interviewers between 2001 and 2002. Personality, substance use, mood, and anxiety disorders and ...