Increased schizotypal traits have previously been associated with atypical semantic cognition in community samples. However, no study has yet examined whether adults diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) display atypical semantic fluency and memory. We hypothesized that 24 adults diagnosed with SPD would name more idiosyncratic words on the semantic fluency task and show decreased semantic recall for animal and fruit category words compared with 29 participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and a community sample of 96 age-matched controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The historical concept of borderline conditions refers to the pathology on the border between neurosis and psychosis. In the conditions were divided into specific but also somewhat overlapping diagnostic criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD). This phenomenological overlap, which results in co-occurrence of the two diagnoses, remains a clinical challenge to this day.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe newly added diagnosis complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) in the 11th edition of the includes a domain of disturbances in self-organization (DSO), in addition to PTSD. The DSO construct appears to have definitional overlap with the dimensional personality pathology severity measure, personality functioning. This study investigated the association between personality functioning and CPTSD, and the associations between DSO clusters and personality functioning domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBorderline (BPD) and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) were introduced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III). However, the clinical differentiation of the 2 diagnoses (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) were introduced in DSM-III and retained in DSM-5 Section II. They often co-occur and some aspects of the clinical differentiation between the 2 diagnoses remain unclear (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatients with personality disorders are common. They often have co-morbid mental and physical illnesses, poor quality of life, and severe social impairment. Yet, these disorders of personality are often undiagnosed.
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