Chapter 12.Personality Disorders
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Recent investigations have estimated a point prevalence of personality disorders in the general population of the United States ranging from 9% to almost 16% (Lenzenweger et al. 2007). These figures are consistent with the results of a recent meta-analysis that showed that the rate of personality disorders in community populations in Western countries is about 12.1% (Volkert et al. 2018). Psychological autopsy studies have helped recognize the importance of a personality disorder diagnosis as a risk factor for death from suicide. One meta-analysis (Isometsä 2001) has shown that as many as 57% of those who die from suicide had at least one personality disorder. Similarly, among psychiatric outpatients, half of those who died from suicide had a personality disorder (Brown et al. 2000).
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