Objective: To test the reliability and applicability of Urdu translation of the International
personality disorder examination (IPDE) in a psychiatric outpatient population in Pakistan.
A total sample of 60 patients, 30 patients (15 men and 15 women) is a help seeker, and 30 patients (15 men and 15 women) who are without
personality disorder.
Personality psychopathology is suggested to be ruled out in all patients with major depressive disorder specifically and addressed in treatment as there is established evidence of prevalence of
personality disorders as borderline
personality disorder among patients with Mood disorders.
Differences between clinical and research practices in diagnosing borderline
personality disorder.
Two clinical psychologists were busy and one had no experience working with people suffering from borderline
personality disorder.
with a Cluster C
personality disorder (avoidant, dependent or
Another result of paternal permissive parenting is narcissistic
personality disorder characterised by grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy.
A very few studies (Rossier J, et al 2013; Paris' 1998) have been done on personality and
personality disorder to describe the relationship between
personality disorder and culture among the rural and urban areas and has been concluded that prevalence rate of PDs are supposed to be culturally dependent and was hypothesised that PDs of cluster C should be more frequent in the rural sample and PDs of cluster B should be more frequent in the urban sample (Paris; 1998) rather than estimating prevalent rates.
Antisocial
personality disorder is associated with receipt of physical disability benefits in substance abuse treatment patients.
Of the
personality disorders, particular attention has been paid to borderline
personality disorder (BPD) as the symptom clusters which it involves have been shown to improve considerably with treatment (4).
This monograph also posits the notion of
personality disorder with severe structure, describing it as a psychiatric entity with rare occurrence in clinical practice, but frequent in the field of forensic psychiatry, because social dysfunction level degenerates into criminality.
As a result of the meetings, we created a database composed of 541 items which were ranked, according to the content, in the following criteria: respective
personality disorder according to Millon's theory and the DSM-IVTR; respective DSM-IV-TR criteria; compatible item of the MCMI-III (when existing); and, compatible item of the IDTP (when existing).
