Does DSM-IV already capture the dimensional nature of personality disorders?

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1333-1339

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a   Chelminski, Iwona ^a   Young, Diane ^a   Dalrymple, Kristy ^a   Martinez, Jennifer ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NARCISSISM; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 80054942905     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.11m06974     Document Type: Article

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