Personality Disorders

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Deliberate self-harm in a nonclinical population: prevalence and psychological correlates.

OBJECTIVE: Research on deliberate self-harm (intentionally injuring oneself without suicidal intent) has focused on clinical and forensic populations. Studying only these populations, which typically have serious psychopathology, may lead to inflated ...
E David Klonsky, Thomas F Oltmanns, Eric Turkheimer (Am J Psychiatry, 200308)
deliberate-self-harm-nonclinical-population-prevalence-psychological.asp

2.

Manipulation: searching for an understanding.

Manipulative behaviour is one of the reasons why some psychiatric professionals dislike personality-disordered (PD) patients and dislike working with them. Being manipulated arouses strong negative emotions towards the manipulator and can have severe ...
L Bowers (J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 200306)
manipulation-searching-understanding.asp

3.

Manipulation: description, identification and ambiguity.

The word manipulation is frequently applied to some of the difficult-to-manage behaviours of the personality-disordered patient. However, the term is rarely defined, and a review of both the clinical and research literature shows that little has been ...
L Bowers (J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 200306)
manipulation-description-identification-ambiguity.asp

4.

Reduced processing resource availability in schizotypal personality disorder: evidence from a dual-task CPT study.

Performance on a dual-task information processing task was investigated in 23 schizotypal personality disorder patients (SPD), 29 patients with other noncluster A personality disorders (OPD) and 8 non-psychiatric healthy controls (NC). All participants ...
Patrick J Moriarty, Philip D Harvey, Vivian Mitropoulou, Eric Granholm, Jeremy M Silverman, Larry J Siever (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200305)
reduced-processing-resource-availability-schizotypal-personality.asp

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Emotional avoidance: an experimental test of individual differences and response suppression using biological challenge.

The present study examined the affective consequences of response inhibition during a state of anxiety-related physical stress. Forty-eight non-clinical participants were selected on the basis of pre-experimental differences in emotional avoidance (high ...
M T Feldner, M J Zvolensky, G H Eifert, A P Spira (Behav Res Ther, 200304)
emotional-avoidance-experimental-test-individual-differences-response.asp

6.

Personality disorders and self-perceived quality of life in an elderly psychiatric outpatient population.

The aim of this work was to assess the impact of personality disorder and traits on the subjective assessment of quality of life by a sample of elderly psychiatric outpatients (60 years or more). Sixty of the total number of subjects interviewed were ...
Caterina Condello, Walter Padoani, Ugo Uguzzoni, Federico Caon, Diego De Leo (Psychopathology, 200303-04)
personality-disorders-self-perceived-quality-life-elderly-psychiatric.asp

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Pseudotaxonicity in MAMBAC and MAXCOV analyses of rating-scale data: turning continua into classes by manipulating observers expectations.

Taxometric procedures such as mean above minus below a cut and maximum covariance can determine whether a trait is distributed as a discrete latent class. These methods have been used to infer taxonic structure in several personality and psychopathology ...
Theodore P Beauchaine, Everett Waters (Psychol Methods, 200303)
pseudotaxonicity-mambac-maxcov-analyses-rating-scale-data-turning.asp

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What is the prevalence of narcissistic injury among trainee counselling psychologists?

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the level of narcissistic injury among trainee counselling psychologists using the Narcissistic Injury Scale (Slyter, 1991). This 38-item Likert scale is based on Millers (1981) definition of narcissistic ...
Andrea Halewood, Rachel Tribe (Psychol Psychother, 200303)
prevalence-narcissistic-injury-trainee-counselling-psychologists.asp

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Determinants of expressed emotion in mothers of schizophrenia patients.

Our objectives were to determine the extent to which symptoms in the schizophrenia patient and personality in the mother lead to a sense of subjective burden in the mother, and to explain variance in two components of Expressed Emotion. Data on symptom ...
Suzanne King, Nicole Ricard, Vicky Rochon, Howard Steiger, Sharon Nelis (Psychiatry Res, 200303)
determinants-expressed-emotion-mothers-schizophrenia-patients.asp

10.

Cenesthopathy in adolescence.

Psychopathological investigation was conducted on the basis of the clinical observation of 23 subjects whose cenesthopathic symptoms began before 30 years of age. This illness is called adolescent cenesthopathy based on the specificity of this mental ...
Hisashi Watanabe, Toshihiko Takahashi, Takashi Tonoike, Mami Suwa, Kaoruko Akahori (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 200302)
cenesthopathy-adolescence.asp