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Personality Disorder

Part 1: Record Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jay L. Liss ,
Amos Welner  and
Eli Robins
Jay L. Liss
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.
Amos Welner
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.
Eli Robins
Affiliation:
From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A.
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A diagnosis of personality disorder is commonly used in psychiatry. It is generally agreed to refer to a disorder manifested by limited adaptive flexibility and certain relatively fixed ineffectual modes of behaviour (Ausubel, 1961; Brody and Lindbergh, 1967; DSM II, 1968; Noyes and Kolb, 1958; Schneider, 1950; Small, Small, Alig and Moore, 1970; Walton, Foulds, Littman and Presly, 1970). However, of twenty or more different types of personality disorders only antisocial personality has been differentiated by rigorous criteria as a distinct diagnostic entity (Robins, 1967; Feighner, Robins, Guze, Woodruff, Winokur and Munoz, 1972; Robins, 1966).

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 577 , December 1973 , pp. 685 - 692
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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