Illuminating the Relationship Between Personality Disorder and Violence: Contributions of the General Aggression Model
Psychology of Violence © 2011 American Psychological Association 2011, Vol. 1, No. 3, 230 –244 2152-0828/11/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0024089 Flora Gilbert Monash University Michael Daffern Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, and Rampton Hospital Introduction Although a consensus exists among mental health professionals that certain personality disorders are associated with an increased propensity for violence, uncertainties regarding the nature and extent of this relationship persist. Previous approaches to studying the personality disorder-violence relationship are also hampered by…