Open AccessPersonality disorder: a new global perspective
Author(s) -
TYRER PETER,
MULDER ROGER,
CRAWFORD MIKE,
NEWTONHOWES GILES,
SIMONSEN ERIK,
NDETEI DAVID,
KOLDOBSKY NESTOR,
FOSSATI ANDREA,
MBATIA JOSEPH,
BARRETT BARBARA
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 15.51
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 2051-5545
pISSN - 1723-8617
DOI - 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2010.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - personality , personality disorders , sadistic personality disorder , psychiatry , chinese classification of mental disorders , antisocial personality disorder , perspective (graphical) , relevance (law) , borderline personality disorder , medicine , clinical psychology , multiple personality disorder , mental illness , psychology , mental health , poison control , injury prevention , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , environmental health , political science , law
Personality disorder is now being accepted as an important condition in mainstream psychiatry across the world. Although it often remains unrecognized in ordinary practice, research studies have shown it is common, creates considerable morbidity, is associated with high costs to services and to society, and interferes, usually negatively, with progress in the treatment of other mental disorders. We now have evidence that personality disorder, as currently classified, affects around 6% of the world population, and the differences between countries show no consistent variation. We are also getting increasing evidence that some treatments, mainly psychological, are of value in this group of disorders. What is now needed is a new classification that is of greater value to clinicians, and the WPA Section on Personality Disorders is currently undertaking this task.