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Personality disorders and depression: Comorbidity
Author(s) -
Hirschfeld Robert M.A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6394(1999)10:4<142::aid-da2>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - personality disorders , comorbidity , personality , depression (economics) , psychology , clinical psychology , sadistic personality disorder , psychiatry , biosocial theory , chinese classification of mental disorders , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Depression and comorbid personality disorders relate to one another in three distinct ways: 1) personality disorders may precede the development of depression and render an individual vulnerable to depression; 2) depression may precede the personality disorder and foster the development of the personality disorder; 3) there may be an interface between personality disorders and depression, which has been deemed depressive personality disorder. This article reviews data on the comorbidity of depression, particularly chronic depression, and personality disorders. This article also reviews data on the effect of comorbid personality disorders on treatment for depression, and the effect that treatment for depression has on personality disorders. Comorbid personality disorders generally do not impede treatment for depression. Successful treatment for depression is associated with improvement in personality disorders. Depression and Anxiety 10:142–146, 1999.© 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.