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Diagnosing Personality Disorders: A Review of Issues and Research Methods

Zimmerman, Mark·1994·Archives of General Psychiatry

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Many questions face researchers conducting personality disorder research. Which measure should be used? When should patients be evaluated--at initial presentation when they are still symptomatic, or after symptom resolution? Can a patient accurately describe his or her personality, or must an informant be contacted? What do you do when personality traits change during an individual's lifetime? I discuss these and other issues of personality disorder assessment in the DSM-III/DSM-III-R era, and examine the empiric literature bearing on these questions. First, I review studies of diagnostic reliability and stability, because studies of the above questions can only be interpreted in the context of the limitations imposed by modest reliability.

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Authors
Zimmerman, M.
Venue
Archives of General Psychiatry
Published
1994-03-01
Volume
51
Issue
3
Pages
225
ISSN
0003-990X (ISSN-L)
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W2008703093
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723
References
6
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27.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
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