文档介绍：BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY (2007), 190 (suppl. 49), s51^ s59. doi: .
Critical developments in the assessment DSM–III–R/DSM–IV (American Psychi-
atric Association, 1994) diagnoses of
of personality disorder personality disorder from case records.
Perhaps the most interesting revelation
came from what is probably the first struc-
PETER TYRER, NATALIE COOMBS, FATEMA IBRAHIMI,
tural neuroimaging study of lying (Yang et
ANAND MATHILAKATH, PRIYA BAJAJ, MAJA RANGER, al, 2005). One might have thought that this
BHARTI RAOand RAANA DIN was a subject for which standard person-
ality assessment would have been both
natural and essential. However, the authors
felt it necessary to construct a portmanteau
instrument derived from the PCL–R,
Background The assessmentofassessment of The assessment of personality and its range DSM–IV and an extra criterion for malin-
personality disorder is currently of abnormality, a range that is much great- gering. It is hardly surprising that the find-
er than that implied by the conventional ings of the study (increased pre-frontal
urate, largely unreliable, frequently
label of ‘personality disorder’, is one of white matter in liars) has attracted a great
wrong andandin in need of improvement. the critical elements of a psychiatric deal of attention when the authors are un-
examination. However, it is fre