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"Personality disorder" and capacity to make treatment decisions
Journal of Medical Ethics, 10/27/09

Szmukler G – Whether treatment decision–making capacity can be meaningfully applied to patients with a diagnosis of "personality disorder" is examined. Patients presenting to a psychiatric emergency clinic with threats of self–harm are considered, two having been assessed and reviewed in detail. It was found that capacity can be meaningfully assessed in such patients, although the process is more complex than in patients with diagnoses of a more conventional kind.

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Personality disorders improve in patients treated for major depression
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 11/13/09 Relevance Score: 70%

Effectiveness of Different Modalities of Psychotherapeutic Treatment for Patients with Cluster C Personality Disorders: Results of a Large Prospective Multicentre Study
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 11/16/09 Relevance Score: 69%

Borderline Personality or Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Update on the Controversy
Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 10/30/09 Relevance Score: 69%

Borderline personality disorder: STEPPS is practical, evidence-based, easier to use
Current Psychiatry, 10/06/09 Relevance Score: 69%

How mothers with borderline personality disorder relate to their year-old infants
British Journal of Psychiatry, 10/05/09 Relevance Score: 69%