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    280           Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 14, 280–290 2004 © Whurr Publishers Ltd PETER G.J. GREEVEN1 and CORINE DE RUITER2, 1Expertise Centre for Forensic Psychiatry, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands & Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands     ABSTRACT Background Evidence on the effectiveness of treatment for personality disorder (PD) is mixed, and there are very few data at all on outcomes for offender patients with PD. In the Netherlands there is…

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Paul Moran   What is meant by the term personality disorder? It is only possible to make meaningful statements about the epidemiology and management of a health problem, if an agreed definition of that problem exists. Unfortunately, health professionals do not agree about how best to define personality disorders, nor indeed whether the term personality disorder has any use at all. Despite over two decades of extensive research, psychiatrists and psychologists remain divided as to how these disorders should be…

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    Report of conference held November 2007, London   AUTHORS: Eileen Vizard, Alice Jones, Essi Viding, Elly Farmer, Eamon McCrory Published December 2009   1            Glossary High Risk/High Harm This term is used throughout the report to refer to those children and youth who have traits consistent with early emerging antisocial personality disorder and who place an undue burden on the services. High risk and high harm refers both to the risk suffered by these children or the harm…

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By Ana Sandoiu New research sheds some light on the genetic basis of this serious eating disorder. Eating disorders affect millions of people in the United States, and anorexia nervosa is considered to have the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric conditions. For the first time, new research identifies a genetic location that helps to shed more light on the causes of this illness. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that affects both genders. However, the disorder is two and…

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The Symptom of BPD That Makes My World Black and White   By Sarah Cooper I write about Borderline Personality Disorder December 1, 2016 Splitting is a symptom of borderline personality disorder (BPD) I was unfamiliar with until recently despite having been diagnosed in 2015. Splitting is a coping defense mechanism people with BPD use to avoid rejection or being hurt. It means that someone is either good or they are bad. There are no good people who make mistakes….

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                        W. Keith Campbell and Jean M. Twenge   They can be self-centered, arrogant or cocky. They seem charming at first, but later turned out to be intensely self-absorbed. They may be supremely confident in their abilities but turn out to be incompetent — and blame other people for their failures. Narcissists must perform a variety of mental and social gymnastics to protect their grandiose views of themselves. They…

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