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Growth of the Literature on the Topic of Personality Disorders

Blashfield, Roger K., Intoccia, Vincent·2000·American Journal of Psychiatry

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OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed the growth of the literature on the topic of personality disorders before and after publication of DSM-III. METHOD: A MEDLINE search was conducted for journal articles concerning the personality disorders that were published from 1966 to 1995. RESULTS: Contrary to the authors' prediction, the growth of this literature was slower after the publication of DSM-III in 1980 than it was before that date. Other areas of psychopathology, such as Alzheimer's disease and posttraumatic stress disorder, have literatures whose growth rates since 1980 have exceeded their growth rates before publication of DSM-III. CONCLUSIONS: Over one-half of the individual personality disorders (e.g., histrionic and passive-aggressive) have either very small literatures or literatures with negative growth rates. Only three personality disorders (i.e., antisocial, borderline, and schizotypal) have modestly growing literatures.

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  • The decision to exclude some PDs was purportedly made to reduce co-occurrence among the PDs and because some literature bases were viewed as small.

    “Although the decision to exclude some PDs was purportedly made to reduce co-occurrence among the PDs and because some literature bases were viewed as small (Blashfield & Intoccia 2000, Morey & Stagner 2012), these decisions were widely criticized by some members of the workgroup (Livesley 2013, Krueger 2013) and researchers in the field (Blashfield & Reynolds 2012, Miller et al. 2010b, Widiger 201”

    From Controversies in Narcissism (2017) · cites this paper as Blashfield & Intoccia 2000

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Authors
Blashfield, R. K., & Intoccia, V.
Affiliations
Auburn University (US)
Venue
American Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2000-03-01
Volume
157
Issue
3
Pages
472-473
ISSN
  • 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-7228
OpenAlex
W2101907932
Cited by
185
References
3
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Keywords
personality disorders, literature growth, DSM-III, publication trends, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, passive-aggressive personality disorder, psychopathology
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Mental Disorders, Humans, Terminology as Topic, Periodicals as Topic, Personality Disorders, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Publishing, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, MEDLINE

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