Personality disorder: a new global perspective
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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.
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TL;DR
This review argues that personality disorder is common, costly, and under-recognized worldwide, with prevalence estimates around 6% globally and 3–10% in community samples. It calls for a new, clinically useful classification and concludes that psychological treatments show promise while drug treatments lack long-term support.
Key findings
- Recent epidemiological studies report varied prevalence: 4.4% in Great Britain (Coid et al., n=628), 14.8% in the US (Grant et al., n=43,093), and a 10-country survey (Huang et al., n=21,162) found no consistent cross-country pattern; the abstract cites around 6% globally and a 3–10% community range.
- Comorbid personality disorder predicts poorer outcomes: meta-analytic evidence from more than 60 depression studies indicates roughly double the likelihood of non-recovery, while psychosis studies show prevalence estimates from 4.5% to 100% and poorly studied outcomes.
- Economic burden estimates include £704 million per year in English health and social care costs for people with personality disorder in contact with general practitioners, rising to £7.9 billion with productivity losses; a Dutch estimate is £11,126 per patient.
- Treatment and classification: psychotropic drugs are judged to have no proven long-term value; structured team psychological approaches are suggested for borderline personality disorder and cognitive/group approaches for antisocial personality disorder, with rewards preferred over punishment; three quarters of surveyed experts favored replacing DSM-IV, and the WPA Section is developing ICD-11 proposals.
Methods
- Design: narrative global-perspective review and position paper from the WPA Section on Personality Disorders, not primary research.
- Data: summarizes three major recent epidemiological studies (Huang et al. 2009, Coid et al. 2006, Grant et al. 2004) and reviews literature on comorbidity, costs, treatment, and classification.
- Analysis: qualitative synthesis, including reference to a meta-analysis of more than 60 depression studies described as unpublished data and to systematic reviews of treatment trials.
Limitations
- Stated: epidemiological studies are few because national surveys rarely assess personality disorder and lay-interviewer assessment is difficult; cost estimates rely on service attenders and therefore do not represent the whole personality disorder population, so the true cost remains unknown.
- Stated: treatment evidence is concentrated on borderline personality disorder, with too few randomized trials for clear conclusions; evidence for other personality disorders is scant, two cluster C trials disagree, and psychosis measurement reliability and outcomes are unclear.
- Evident from the text: as a review/position piece, it relies on selected literature and some unpublished data, and the proposed dimensional factors are acknowledged to have little validity evidence so far.
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People with a personality disorder are about twice as likely not to recover from a depressive episode as those without personality disorder.
“people with a personality disorder are approximately twice as likely not to recover from a de pressive episode as those with no personality disorder”
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The prevalence of personality pathology in psychotic mental illness ranges from 4.5% to 100%.
“even the prevalence of personality pathology ranges from 4.5 to 100%”
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Personality disorder has an important influence on the outcome of other mental disorders when comorbid.
“Personality disorder has been shown to have an im portant influence on the outcome of other mental disorders when present as a comorbid condition”
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Personality disorder is common in the general population.
“research studies have shown it is common”
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These cost studies do not provide an estimate of the total economic burden of personality disorder because they used information on people in contact with services.
“they do not provide an estimate of the total economic burden of personality disorder, because both of them used information on people who were in contact with services”
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The largest epidemiological study, across 10 countries including six low- or middle-income countries, shows personality disorders are no less prevalent outside Europe, North America and Australia.
“it demonstrates that personality disorders are no less prevalent outside Europe, North Amer ica and Australia”
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Prevalence differences between countries show no consistent variation.
“the differences between countries show no consistent variation”
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In an Australian cohort, neuroticism was one of the few correlates predictive of poor two-year outcome in people with mental illness.
“Two-year outcomes in an Australian cohort showed the personality facet of neuroticism to be one of the few correlates predictive of poor outcome in those with men tal illnesses”
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Some treatments, mainly psychological, are of value in personality disorder.
“some treatments, mainly psychological, are of value in this group of disorders”
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Personality disorder causes considerable morbidity.
“creates considerable morbidity”
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Personality disorder is much more prevalent in secondary care settings than in the community.
“it is, as would be expected, much higher in secondary care settings”
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- cites [9] Cutting, 1986, Personality and psychosis: use of the Standardised Assessment of Personality, Acta Psychiatr Scand source
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Personality disorder usually interferes negatively with progress in treating other mental disorders.
“interferes, usually negatively, with progress in the treatment of other mental disorders”
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Service attenders are not representative of the personality disorder population as a whole.
“they are not representative of the personality disorder population as a whole”
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Social functioning problems among people with personality disorder are clinically significant even after controlling for other comorbid mental health problems.
“problems in social functioning among people with personal ity disorder are clinically significant, even when the impact of other comorbid mental health problems has been con trolled for”
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Cross-sectional data suggest personality disorder, particularly its severity, is associated with higher social needs and greater social dysfunction in secondary care patients in England.
“Cross-sectional data has also suggested per sonality disorder, particularly its severity, to be associated with both higher social needs and greater social dysfunction in patients in a secondary care setting in England”
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Only a minority, probably one in 20, of people with personality disorder has a severe personality disorder.
“only a minority of these (prob ably one in 20) has a severe personality disorder”
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The existing classification takes no account of severity.
“It takes no account of severity”
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For treatment-resisting (Type R) personality disorder, adapting the environment to the personality through nidotherapy may be better than seeking personality change.
“it may be better to try and adapt the envi ronment to the personality and this can be done systemati cally in the form of nidotherapy”
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- cites [34] Tyrer, 2003, The principles of nidotherapy in the treatment of persistent mental and personality disorders, Psychother Psychosom source
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There is surprising consistency in the number and descriptions of the main dimensions of personality disorder in studies of psychiatric patients and normal populations.
“There is surprising consistency over the number and de scriptions of the main dimensions of personality disorder in studies carried out with both psychiatric patients and nor mal populations”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 3 sources checked- cites [43] Tyrer, 1979, Classification of personality disorder, Br J Psychiatry source
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- cites [44] Livesley, 1987, A systematic approach to the delineation of personality disorders, Am J Psychiatry source
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- cites [45] Mulder, 1997, Temperament and the structure of personality disorder symptoms, Psychol Med source
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Three or four dimensions are uniformly reported, in addition to the five-factor model.
“Three or four dimensions are uniformly reported (43)(44)(45)(46), in addition to the well-known five-factor model”
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- cites [44] Livesley, 1987, A systematic approach to the delineation of personality disorders, Am J Psychiatry source
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- cites [45] Mulder, 1997, Temperament and the structure of personality disorder symptoms, Psychol Med source
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In clinical practice, people offered treatment usually meet diagnostic criteria for several categories of personality disorders.
“in clinical practice people offered treatment usually meet diagnostic criteria for several categories of personality disorders”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 2 sources checked- cites [38] Giesen-Bloo, 2006, Outpatient psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: randomized trial of schema-focused therapy vs. transference-focused psychotherapy, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
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- cites [39] Abbass, 2008, Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for DSM-IV personality disorders: a randomized controlled trial, J Nerv Ment Dis source
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Systematic reviews concluded too few studies have been conducted to draw clear conclusions about treatment of borderline personality disorder.
“Systematic reviews of previously published randomized trials have concluded that too few studies have been conducted to draw clear conclusions about the treat ment of this form of personality disorder”
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Nidotherapy has received support in a recent randomized trial.
“This has received support in a recent randomized trial”
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In cluster C personality disorders, Emmelkamp et al found greater improvement with 20 sessions of cognitive therapy compared with psychodynamic psychotherapy.
“Emmelkamp et al demonstrating greater im provement among those offered 20 sessions of cognitive therapy compared to psychodynamic psychotherapy”
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Systematic reviews highlighted promising but still unclear benefits of complex psychosocial interventions such as dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder.
“the promising, if still unclear, benefits of complex psychosocial interventions such as dialectical behaviour therapy”
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The existing classification is unhelpful for the most severe personality disorders.
“For the most severe personality disorders, the existing classification is unhelpful”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim- Rests on an assumption: People with severe personality disorder cause the most disruption to services and society.
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The existing classification generates frequent comorbidity of several personality disorders across different clusters.
“it generates the frequent comorbidity of several person ality disorders across different clusters”
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In cluster C personality disorders, Svartberg et al found similar treatment outcomes for cognitive therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
“Svartberg et al found similar treatment outcomes among those receiving these two interventions”
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NICE guidelines concluded that in antisocial personality disorder, interventions that reward are better than those that punish.
“in antisocial personality disorder, interventions that reward are better than those that punish”
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Systematic reviews highlighted limited, if any, impact of pharmacological treatments for borderline personality disorder.
“they have high lighted the limited, if any, impact of pharmacological treat ments”
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The third dimension comprises schizoid symptoms: introversion, social indifference, aloofness, and restricted expression of affect.
“The third dimension comprises schizoid symp toms: introversion and social indifference, aloofness and restricted expression of affect”
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These factors can be adapted to a developmental perspective that allows personality disturbance to be identified before age 18.
“They can also be adapted to a devel opmental perspective that will allow personality disturbance to be identified long before the current cut-off age of 18”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites [50] Tackett, 2009, A unifying perspective on personality pathology across the life span: developmental considerations for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Dev Psychopathol source
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The first dimension is an externalizing, potentially aggressive and hostile factor incorporating borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic, and often paranoid personality disorder traits.
“The first dimension is an externalizing potentially aggres sive and hostile factor that incorporates borderline, antiso cial, narcissistic, histrionic (cluster B in DSM-IV) and often paranoid personality disorder traits”
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InterpretationreasoningPeople with personality disorder and comorbid mental disorders have poorer outcomes, function less well, and are stigmatized by clinicians in secondary services, reducing their odds of receiving optimum care.
“people with personality disorder and comorbid personality disorder have poorer outcomes, function less well in society and are stigmatized by clinicians in secondary services, reducing the odds they will receive optimum care”
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Premisenone givenPersonality disorder is associated with high costs to services and society.
“is associated with high costs to services and to society”
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PremisecitationThe King's Fund estimated health and social care service costs of all people with personality disorder in contact with general practitioners in England at £704 million per year.
“the King's Fund esti mated the health and social care service costs of all people with personality disorder who are in contact with their gen eral practitioners at £704 million per year”
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PremisecitationMany people with personality disorder are unknown to services, reject treatment rather than seek it, or are in contact with services but have a different primary diagnosis.
“many of those with personality disorder are un known to services (24), reject treatment rather than seek it (25), or are in contact with services but have a different pri mary diagnosis (26)”
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- cites [25] Tyrer, 2003, Treatment-rejecting and treatment-seeking personality disorders: Type R and Type S, J Person Disord source
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- cites [26] Ranger, 2004, Prevalence of personality disorder in the caseload of an inner city assertive outreach team, Psychiatr Bull source
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InterpretationreasoningClinicians' attitudes may adversely affect delivery of health care and make it harder for patients with personality disorder and comorbid mental disorders to access and receive appropriate management.
“These attitudes may adversely affect delivery of health care provision and as such make it more difficult for patients with personality disorder and comorbid mental disorders to access and receive appropriate manage ment for either disorder”
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Premisenone givenAs currently classified, personality disorder affects about 6% of the world population.
“affects around 6% of the world population”
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PremisecitationRecent evidence suggests clinicians perceive patients with personality disorders as more difficult, despite objective evidence failing to support this view.
“recent evidence suggests that clinicians perceive patients with personality disorders as more difficult, despite the objective evidence failing to sup port such a view”
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PremisecitationThe large variation in prevalence of personality pathology in psychosis is related to country, care provided, and measurement tools.
“This huge variation appears to be related to the coun try of the study, the care provided and the tools used to mea sure personality”
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InterpretationreasoningPersonality dysfunction has a negative effect on function and outcome and remains relatively undertreated.
“personality dysfunction has a negative effect on function and outcome, but remains relatively undertreated”
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PremisecitationFor over two decades, it has been suggested that mental health clinicians dislike patients with personality disorders.
“For more than two decades, there has been the suggestion that mental health clinicians do not like patients with per sonality disorders”
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PremisecitationSoeteman et al calculated the total burden of personality disorder in the Netherlands to be £11,126 per patient.
“They calculated the total burden of personality disorder in the Netherlands to be £11,126 per patient”
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Premisenone givenCommunity prevalence of personality disorder appears to range from 3% to 10%.
“the community prevalence of personality disorder appears to range from 3 to 10%”
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PremisecitationIncluding productivity losses, the cost rose to £7.9 billion per year.
“When pro ductivity losses were included, the cost rose to £7.9 billion per year”
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PremisecitationPersonality disorder in psychotic patients is associated with violence, crime, and hospital readmission.
“personality disorder in this group often shows itself in terms of violence (15), crime (16), and hospital re admission (17)”
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- cites [16] Moran, 2004, The correlation of comorbid antisocial personality disorder in schizophrenia, Schizophr Bull source
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InterpretationreasoningWhile there is currently little evidence to support the validity of these factors, they almost certainly provide a better description of the range of personality abnormality than current classifications.
“While there is currently little evidence to support the va lidity of these factors, they almost certainly provide a better description of the range of personality abnormality than the current classifications”
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PremisecitationA recent survey reported that three quarters of personality disorder experts thought the current DSM-IV system should be replaced.
“A recent survey reported that three quarters of personality disorder experts thought the current DSM-IV system should be replaced”
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InterpretationreasoningThe legacy is a diagnostic system that dissatisfies both researcher and clinician, being neither simple, accurate nor useful.
“The legacy is a diagnostic system that dissatisfies both the researcher and the clinician, being neither simple, accurate or useful”
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PremisecitationA robust classification should travel well.
“a robust classifica tion should travel well”
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PremisecitationThe term 'personality disorder not otherwise specified' is frequently used, often more than any specific category, marking dissatisfaction with the existing classification.
“the frequent use of the term”
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InterpretationreasoningThe true cost of personality disorder remains unknown but is certainly substantial, falling to health, social services, criminal justice, and the wider economy.
“the true cost of personal ity disorder remains unknown, but it is certainly substantial, falling to many service providing sectors (health, social ser vices, criminal justice) as well as to the economy more wide ly”
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InterpretationreasoningUsing four or possibly more overlapping factors seems preferable to continuing to treat the ten current personality disorders as separate, when they have repeatedly been found not to be.
“Using four (or possibly more) overlapping factors seems preferable to continuing to act as though the ten current personality dis orders are separate, when they have repeatedly been found not to be”
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PremisecitationNICE guidelines concluded that if other treatments, mainly psychological, are given, they need a structured team approach for borderline personality disorder and cognitive therapeutic approaches, particularly group management, for antisocial personality disorder.
“if other treatments (mainly psychological) are to be given, they need to be administered using a structured team approach for borderline personality disorder and using cognitive therapeutic approaches (par ticularly group management) in antisocial personality disor der”
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PremisecitationIn some studies, schizoid characteristics overlap with eccentric and odd behaviour and/or paranoid symptoms, and an additional factor, peculiarity, has been suggested for a six-factor model.
“In some studies these charac teristics overlap with eccentric and odd behaviour and/or paranoid personality disorder symptoms, and an additional factor, peculiarity, has been suggested to make up a six-fac tor model”
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Premisenone givenSome studies report a separate psychopathy factor incorporating callousness, lack of remorse, and criminal behaviour, while others find a single broad factor.
“Some studies report a separation of a factor incorporating callousness, lack of re morse and criminal behaviour (psychopathy), while others find a single broad factor”
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InterpretationcitationMost putative successful treatments for personality disorder are time consuming and resource intensive and need a good theoretical base and therapeutic commitment.
“Most of the putative successful treatments for personality disorder are time consuming and resource intensive, and need to be buttressed by a good theoretical base and thera peutic commitment”
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InterpretationreasoningAlthough DSM-IV promoted a huge but scattered amount of research, there are now good reasons to consider the DSM-IV approach completely out of date.
“although it has promoted a huge, but widely scattered, amount of re search on the aetiology, psychopathology, course and treat ment of personality disorders, there are now good reasons to consider the DSM-IV approach completely out of date”
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InterpretationreasoningThe DSM-IV polythetic diagnoses describe poorly specified psychopathology and fail to identify criteria corresponding to core features of each personality disorder.
“The DSM-IV polythetic diagnoses describe poorly speci fied psychopathology and so it is natural that they fail to identify criteria that could correspond to the”
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InterpretationreasoningThe lack of clearly identified core features and a vote-counting approach to diagnosis prevented clinicians from making differential diagnoses within axis II.
“The lack of clearly identified core features and a”
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PremisecitationAn expert panel on management of people with personality disorder suggested there is no quick fix and that in most countries resources are not likely to be available to treat them in this way.
“an expert panel on the management of people with personality disorder (37), which also suggested that there is no”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites [37] Crawford, 2008, Dedicated community-based services for adults with personality disorder: Delphi study, Br J Psychiatry source
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InterpretationreasoningSuch findings add weight to the case for re-classifying personality disorder to ensure clinical utility.
“Such findings add weight to the case for re-classifying personality disorder to ensure that the system used has clinical utility”
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Interpretationnone givenIf the epidemiological figures are accepted, 3-10% of adult inhabitants in countries of the world have a personality disorder.
“If we accept the epidemiological figures, 3-10% of the adult inhabitants in the countries of the world have a per sonality disorder”
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PremisecitationNICE guidelines concluded psychotropic drugs are of no proven long-term value in borderline and antisocial personality disorders, and adverse effects normally preclude use except for short periods and crisis.
“psychotropic drugs are of no proven value in the long term in these personality disorders, and their adverse effects normally preclude their use except for short periods and in crisis”
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PremisereasoningThe fourth factor comprises obsessionality, compulsivity, and perfectionism, and empirical data suggest it can be separated from the internalizing factor.
“The fourth factor comprises obsessionality, compulsivity and perfectionism and, although these are cur rently part of the cluster C grouping, the empirical data sug gests they can be separated”
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People with severe personality disorder cause the most disruption to services and society.
“it is the people in this group who cause the most disruption to services and to society”
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Prevalence estimates from different countries can be meaningfully compared despite differences in methods and instruments.
“the differences between countries show no consistent variation”
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Personality disorders as classified in DSM-IV affect about 6% of the world's population.
“PDs as currently classified in the DSM-IV system affects about 6 % of the world’s population [9, 11]”
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Personality disorders have been associated with similar or higher societal costs than mood and anxiety disorders.
“Personality disorders (PDs) are now being accepted as important conditions in mainstream psychiatry and have been associated with similar or higher costs to society than mood and anxiety disorders [9–11]”
From Personality disorders are important risk factors for disability pensioning (2014) · cites this paper as [11]
Personality disorders are relatively common in the community, and effective treatment is available for some.
“As PDs are relatively common in the community, and effective treatment is available for some, health care workers should be aware of the strong link between PDs and work force exclusion.”
From Personality disorders are important risk factors for disability pensioning (2014) · cites this paper as [11]
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
One listed study falls outside the stated five-year period
MinorThe paper is dated February 2010, so a study published in 2004 was not published within the preceding five years.
“Three major studies of the epidemiology of personality disorder have now been published in the last five years.The results are summarized in Table 1.”
“Grant et al, 2004 (7) | United States of America | Random sample | 14.8”
Reported prevalence range excludes a listed survey
MinorThe paper gives a community prevalence range of 3-10%, but Table 1 lists 14.8% for a random sample in the United States.
“Although the community prevalence of personality disorder appears to range from 3 to 10%, it is, as would be expected, much higher in secondary care settings (8,9).”
“Grant et al, 2004 (7) | United States of America | Random sample | 14.8”
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- Authors
- TYRER, P., MULDER, R., CRAWFORD, M., NEWTON-HOWES, G., SIMONSEN, E., NDETEI, D., KOLDOBSKY, N., FOSSATI, A., MBATIA, J., & BARRETT, B.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Otago (NZ)
- University of Nairobi (KE)
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata (AR)
- IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele (IT)
- Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (TZ)
- ORCID
- Venue
- World Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-02
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 56-60
- ISSN
- 1723-8617 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2816919
- OpenAlex
- W1754023234
- Semantic Scholar
- 8d4efb26c114a92c0a53f3f1cac169031babde8a
- Cited by
- 102
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 5.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- World Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion)
- Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca - Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- RUCforsk (Roskilde University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Keywords
- personality disorders, global prevalence, morbidity, service costs, psychological intervention, personality disorder classification
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