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Abstract

One-hundred-and-one-patients diagnosed initially as personality disorder (other than antisocial per sonality) and whose records had been reviewed were followed up (90 per cent follow-up). Using rigorous diagnostic criteria, there was consistent agreement and continuity of diagnoses between the follow-up and the record study. As in the record study, there was no correlation between the personality disorder diagnosis and the diagnosis by criteria. The patients in this study were divided into five groups: Group I (undiagnosed, too few symptoms), Group II (affective