Personality disorders and violence

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-92

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a,c   Leucht, Stefan ^b   Kaprinis, George S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antisocial; Borderline; Personality; Personality disorders; Violence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHICS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; LITERATURE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SEX OFFENSES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 40349105879     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3282f31137     Document Type: Review

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