Clinical-diagnostic landmarks and psychiatric comorbidities in borderline and antisocial personality disorders
Clinical-diagnostic landmarks and psychiatric comorbidities in borderline and antisocial personality disorders
Author(s): Ilinca UNTU, Alexandra Bolos, Dania Andreea RADU, Roxana Chirita, Vasile ChirițăSubject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Editura Sedcom Libris Iasi
Keywords: Emotionally unstable personality disorder;dissocial personality disorder;psychiatric comorbidities;
Summary/Abstract: Personality disorders in cluster B, borderline and antisocial, which find their counterpart inemotionally unstable and dissocial personality disorder in ICD 10 are some of the mostcommon diagnostic entities in current psychiatric practice, raising a number of clinical issues,regarding characteristic symptomatic elements and especially, frequently associatedpsychiatric comorbidities, among which are the addictions, mostly the chronic alcoholism andthe affective disorders. The present study aims to obtain a synthetic image of the emergencypresentation pattern of these cases, their socio-familial background and aggravatingpsychiatric comorbidities, in a prestigious single-profile medical unit, in order to mark a pointof departure for specialized intervention programs.
Journal: Buletin de Psihiatrie Integrativa
- Issue Year: 85/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 29-35
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
