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The Relationship between Severity of Personality Disorder and Certain Adverse Childhood Influences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Michael Craft
Affiliation:
Personality Development Research Unit (Wales), University College, Bangor, and Oakwood Park, Conway
Geoffrey Stephenson
Affiliation:
University of Keele
Clive Granger
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham

Extract

This paper reports the result of an investigation into the hypothesis that severity of personality disturbance is positively related to the frequency of certain early adverse childhood influences.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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