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Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Clinical Health Psychology Practice: Case Studies of Comorbid Psychological Distress and Life-Limiting Illness

Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Clinical Health Psychology Practice: Case Studies of Comorbid Psychological Distress and Life-Limiting Illness

Behav Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2018 Feb 20. Published in final edited form as: Behav Med. 2017 Jul-Sep; 43(3): 156–164. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2017.1301875 PMCID: PMC5819598 NIHMSID: NIHMS941439 PMID: 28767013 Elizabeth L. Kacel, Nicole Ennis, and Deidre B. Pereira Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Behav Med See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is characterized by a persistent pattern of…

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Personality Disorders in Patients with Cancer

Personality Disorders in Patients with Cancer

Daniel C. McFarland, DO, Jody Morita, MD, Yesne Alici, MD Abstract / Synopsis: ABSTRACT: Personality disorders exist on a spectrum in the general population and therefore may coexist in patients who have cancer. Patients with these disorders exhibit character rigidity resulting from enduring patterns of inner experience and behavior and may experience some level of interpersonal conflict among medical staff caring for them. These conditions become exacerbated under stressful cancer-related situations and may lead to adverse consequences and outcomes. This…

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Personality and personality disorders in urban and rural Africa: results from a field trial in Burkina Faso

Personality and personality disorders in urban and rural Africa: results from a field trial in Burkina Faso

Original Research ARTICLE Front. Psychol., 11 March 2013 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00079 Jérôme Rossier1*, Abdoulaye Ouedraogo2, Donatien Dahourou2, Sabrina Verardi1 and Franz Meyer de Stadelhofen1 1University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso When conducting research in different cultural settings, assessing measurement equivalence is of prime importance to determine if constructs and scores can be compared across groups. Structural equivalence implies that constructs have the same meaning across groups, metric equivalence implies that the metric of the scales remains…

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Pattern destabilization and emotional processing in cognitive therapy for personality disorders

Pattern destabilization and emotional processing in cognitive therapy for personality disorders

Original Research ARTICLE Front. Psychol., 23 February 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00107 Adele M. Hayes* and Carly Yasinski Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Clinical trials of treatments for personality disorders can provide a medium for studying the process of therapeutic change with particularly entrenched and self-perpetuating systems and might reveal important principles of system transition. We examined the extent to which maladaptive personality patterns were destabilized in a trial of cognitive therapy personality disorders (CT-PD)…

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The Natural Course (Remission) of Bulimia Nervosa and Eating Disorder not Otherwise Specified is not Influenced by Personality Disorders

The Natural Course (Remission) of Bulimia Nervosa and Eating Disorder not Otherwise Specified is not Influenced by Personality Disorders

nt J Eat Disord. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 Nov 15. Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2003 Nov; 34(3): 10.1002/eat.10196. doi: 10.1002/eat.10196 PMCID: PMC3828646 NIHMSID: NIHMS526979 PMID: 12949923 Carlos M. Grilo,1,* Charles A. Sanislow,1 M. Tracie Shea,2 Andrew E. Skodol,3 Robert L. Stout,2 Maria E. Pagano,2 Shirley Yen,2 and Thomas H. McGlashan1 Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Int J Eat Disord See…

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Childhood Trauma and Personality Disorder Criterion Counts: A Co-twin Control Analysis

Childhood Trauma and Personality Disorder Criterion Counts: A Co-twin Control Analysis

J Abnorm Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Nov 1. Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Psychol. 2013 Nov; 122(4): 1070–1076. doi: 10.1037/a0034238 PMCID: PMC3992260 NIHMSID: NIHMS554921 PMID: 24364608 Erin C. Berenz, Ananda B. Amstadter, Steven H. Aggen, Gun Peggy Knudsen, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Charles O. Gardner, and Kenneth S. Kendler Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at J Abnorm Psychol See other articles in PMC that cite…

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Effectiveness of iconic therapy for the reduction of borderline personality disorder symptoms among suicidal youth: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Effectiveness of iconic therapy for the reduction of borderline personality disorder symptoms among suicidal youth: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry. 2018; 18: 277. Published online 2018 Sep 3. doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-1857-x PMCID: PMC6122595 PMID: 30176878 Silvia Hurtado-Santiago,1 José Guzmán-Parra,2 Rosa M. Bersabé,3 and Fermín Mayoral2 Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer Associated Data Data Availability Statement The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study will be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. All authors will have access to the complete dataset. Data will be archived for at least 15 years according to Good Clinical Practice…

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Schema therapy for borderline personality disorder: A qualitative study of patients’ perceptions

Schema therapy for borderline personality disorder: A qualitative study of patients’ perceptions

RESEARCH ARTICLE Yeow May Tan 1☯*, Christopher W. Lee1,2☯, Lynn E. Averbeck3‡, Odette Brand-de Wilde4‡, Joan Farrell5‡, Eva Fassbinder6‡, Gitta A. Jacob7‡, Desiree Martius8‡, Sophie Wastiaux8‡, Gerhard Zarbock9‡, Arnoud Arntz8☯ 1 Department of Psychology and Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 2 Department of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 3 Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 4 De Viersprong, Netherlands Institute of Personality Disorders, Halsteren, The Netherlands, 5 Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue…

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Personality Disorders in Addiction Outpatients: Prevalence and Effects on Psychosocial Functioning

Personality Disorders in Addiction Outpatients: Prevalence and Effects on Psychosocial Functioning

Subst Abuse. 2014; 8: 17–24. Published online 2014 Mar 31. doi:  10.4137/SART.S13764 PMCID: PMC3972129 PMID: 24701119 Paola Casadio,1 Deanna Olivoni,2 Barbara Ferrari,3 Cecilia Pintori,2 Elvira Speranza,2 Monica Bosi,2 Valentina Belli,2 Lucia Baruzzi,2 Paola Pantieri,2 Grazia Ragazzini,2 Filippo Rivola,2 and Anna Rita Atti3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract AIM To evaluate the prevalence of personality disorders (PDs) in the outpatients attending an addiction…

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Comorbid Clinical and Personality Disorders: The Risk of Suicide

Comorbid Clinical and Personality Disorders: The Risk of Suicide

Rahel Eynan, PhD Ravi Shah, MD Paul Links, MD Feb 29, 2016 Volume: 33 Issue 2 TABLE. DSM-V personality disorders with frequently reported comorbid Axis I disorders Clinical disorders (ie, Axis I disorders) often coexist with personality disorders. Patients with these comorbidities can be some of the most challenging for psychiatrists, because they pose a real and substantial risk for suicide and suicidal behavior. DSM-5 groups the 10 personality disorders into clusters A, B, and C. The prevalence of cluster…

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