Depression is the principal cause of illness and disability in the world. Studies charting the
prevalence of depression among children and adolescents report high percentages of …

Abstract This chapter reviews recent (2000–2005) personality disorder (PD) research,
focusing on three major domains: assessment, comorbidity, and stability.(a) Substantial …

The diagnostic categories of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were developed in the spirit of a traditional medical …

The Five Factor Model, which measures individual differences on extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience, is …

Research on the psychology of terrorism has argued against the idea that most terrorist
behavior is caused by mental illness or by a terrorist personality. This article suggests an …

Method: Five hundred thirty individuals aged 18 to 77 years (62% female) were recruited
from the waiting areas of the general medical and obstetric/gynecologic clinics in an urban …

The recognition of the many limitations of the categorical model of personality disorder
classification has led to the development of quite a number of alternative proposals for a …

Personality and psychopathology can relate to one another in three different ways:
personality and psychopathology can influence the presentation or appearance of one …

OBJECTIVE: This study provides initial data on the reliability and factor structure of a
measure of countertransference processes in clinical practice and examines the relation …

Objective: Narcissistic personality disorder has received relatively little empirical attention.
This study was designed to provide an empirically valid and clinically rich portrait of …