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Some aspects of the DSM‐III personality disorders illustrated by a consecutive sample of hospitalized patients
Author(s) -
Dahl Alv A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb10526.x
Subject(s) - personality disorders , personality , inter rater reliability , psychology , clinical psychology , sample (material) , psychiatry , developmental psychology , social psychology , rating scale , chemistry , chromatography
The main innovations of DSM‐III concerning the personality disorders are the assignment of a separate axis and definitions of diagnostic criteria for these disorders. Even with these improvements, diagnosis of the personality disorders shows only moderate interrater reliability. Reasons for this are discussed. Data from a consecutive sample of hospitalized patients are used to illustrate the prevalence of the personality disorders, the coexistence of axis I disorders, and the overlap within the personality disorders. The method of conditional probabilities is presented as a way to get better separation of these disorders.