Growth of Interest in Personality Disorders

Knorring, Lars von; Ekselius, Lisa; Alton, Viveka

doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.158.7.1168

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“…Our analyses supported those by Blashfield and Intoccia (2000), showing no impact of the introduction of the DSM-III once the general growth trend was taken into account. At first glance this lack of impact is discrepant with the results reported by von Knorring et al (2001), who argued that there had been a significant increase in personality disorder research as a result of the DSM-III. These researchers, however, drew their conclusions on the basis of a simple non-parametric comparison between publications rates from 1975-1979 and 1991-1995.…”

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“…The authors also highlighted several personality disorders that had either very small literatures, or declining publication rates. It should be noted, however, that when a similar analysis was done using PsycInfo as the source database, there was evidence for a growth in personality disorder research following the introduction of Axis II (von Knorring, Ekselius, & Alton, 2001). It is difficult to reconcile these two results without recourse to examining both source databases in combination, to gather a much larger representative sample of the literature (Blashfield, 2001;McDonald, Taylor, & Adams, 1999).…”

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Publication trends in individual DSM personality disorders: 1971–2015

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Warner

2009

Australian Psychologist

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Growth in personality disorder research has been documented by previous authors up to 1995. The aim of the present study was to extend this by examining publications rates for individual DSM personality disorders over the period 1971-2005, and making projections to 2015 based on these data. It was found that personality disorder research has grown in absolute terms, and as a proportion of overall psychopathology research. Research output is dominated by borderline personality disorder, with strong publication rates in other conditions such as antisocial and schizotypal personality disorders. In contrast, several personality disorders such as schizoid and paranoid personality disorder have failed to attract research interest. Based on current projections, there is expected to be no research output in 2015 for schizoid personality disorder. It was found that the rate of publications for personality disorders was not influenced by the publication of the last three revisions of the DSM diagnostic criteria. Several potential explanations such as the difficulty in conducting certain types of personality disorder research, and the validity of the current DSM diagnostic taxonomy are discussed.

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