Talk:Personality disorder

Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is NOT a PERSONALITY disorder. They might exist together, but are seperate Axis I, and Axis II disorders distinctly.

Clarification of table under the subheading "Comorbidity in personality disorders"

Is it possible for someone to precede or follow the table titled "DSM-III-R personality disorder diagnostic co-occurrence aggregated across six research sites" with a description of the data in the table? Specifically, what units describe the numbers in the table? Do these numbers represent the percent of people in the study that have "X" personality disorder (PD) and also have "Y" PD? Or are these data reported as the raw numbers of people with each pairwise combination PDs? Also, why are two numbers reported for each pair of PDs? For example, when paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is represented by a row and schizoid personality disorder (SzPD) is represented by a column, their shared number is 8. When their locations are reversed (PPD in column, SzPD in row) their shared number is 38. Does this mean that 8% of people with PPD also have SzPD and 38% of SzPD patients also have PPD, or vice-versa? What is the significance of the positions (column or row) of the PD listings in the table? I appreciate any clarification on these points, and hope I myself have been clear in raising these points of confusion. LisaKBrents (talk) 19:24, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Good questions, but I don't have access to the source, and I cannot help you... Lova Falk talk 21:11, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

I wondered the same thing. Google Books has the answer, but I'm not sure about the rules of copying and pasting into Wikipedia, so I leave that up to you:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=JsgoNVVN9RQC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=DSM-III-R+personality+disorder+diagnostic+co-occurrence+aggregated+across+six+research+sites&source=bl&ots=2Rl0IZPRH3&sig=E1R4FdKRVYHrTlSXlx0TBLOlNuM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PtOuUfr-EomWiAK9wYHgDA&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=DSM-III-R%20personality%20disorder%20diagnostic%20co-occurrence%20aggregated%20across%20six%20research%20sites&f=false 75.159.123.216 (talk) 06:01, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Table of gender differences in the frequency of personality disorders

This table is unclear. Presumably, the Gender column indicates the gender in which each type personality disorder is more common, but it risks incorrectly implying that a type of personality disorder is exclusive to the stated gender. Also, in the case of "Equal", how equally balanced is the distribution between genders? If this table is to be retained, it would greatly benefit from quantitative information if this is available from the source, for example columns for both "Female incidence %" and "Male incidence %", to avoid gender bias and bearing in mind that gender is not binary. AlanS1951 (talk) 20:39, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Percentages would be useful. Antisocial is the most male-dominated as well as the most common PD in men. At least three times as many men (3%) as women (1%) have ASPD. Histrionic is the most female dominated as well as the most common PD in women. About four times as many women (4%) as men (1%) have HPD. Jim Michael (talk) 23:09, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Classification

External links should be provided next to the World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/ and American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org titles on this page for reference and acknowledgement of research and official definitions in this subject.Wjl5326 (talk) 04:31, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Under Cluster B, Narcissistic personality disorder requires a better explanation as it is more than just "grandiosity and admiration". The definition as currently shown on the page is too vague. Per [1]Wjl5326 (talk) 04:31, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Narcissistic personality disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, Wjl5326 (talk) 04:27, 2 December 2014 (UTC)self-admiration, exaggeration of talents and achievements, arrogance, Wjl5326 (talk) 04:27, 2 December 2014 (UTC) [2]and a lack of empathy for other people. Wjl5326 (talk) 04:27, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Diagnosis

I stumbled upon this page, saw that a lot of the information was outdated and decided it needed to be fix it. The information currently present is outdated since it's based off criterion set by DSM-IV, which is an earlier edition. The DSM-5 has revised the diagnostic criterion for personality disorders and I have summed it up in the section below. This is the information I would like to put in place of what is currently there. I am new to editing Wikipedia pages so if you have any feedback, opinions, or advice it would be very much appreciated!

Diagnostic Criterion

In the most recent edition of the DSM, DSM-V, the diagnostic criteria of a personality disorder have been revised. The general criterion for a personality disorder specifies that an individual's personality must deviate significantly from what is expected within their culture. Also, particular personality features must be evident by early adulthood.

In order to diagnose a personality disorder, the following criteria must be met:

• "Significant impairments in self (identity of self-direction) and interpersonal (empathy or intimacy) functioning."
• "One or more pathological personality traits domains or trait facets."
• "The impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expressions are relatively stable across time and consistent across situations."
• "The impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expressions are not better understood as normative for individual's developments stage or sociocultural environment."
• "The impairments in personality functioning and the individual's personality trait expressions are not solely due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., severe head trauma)."

--Barr091 (talk) 22:49, 3 December 2014 (UTC)