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Personality Disorder: Part II. Follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Amos Welner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes and Renard Hospitals, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.
Jay L. Liss
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes and Renard Hospitals, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.
Eli Robins
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes and Renard Hospitals, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.

Extract

In a previous study (Liss, Welner and Robins, 1973), the hospital records of 212 patients who received a diagnosis of personality disorder other than antisocial personality were studied. The clinical information about these patients was used to arrive at an established psychiatric diagnosis based upon the rigorous diagnostic criteria designed for research (Feighner, Robins, Guze, Woodruff, Winokur, and Munoz, 1972). In 118 cases (56 per cent) the clinical symptoms and the course of the disorder met the required diagnostic criteria for one or more of the established psychiatric diagnoses. The remaining 94 patients (44 per cent) had too few symptoms to meet these criteria.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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