ABS: Blashfield, Growth of the literature on the topic of personality disorders

[Gretchen Whitney]

> e-MAIL: blashrk at mail.auburn.edu
>
> TITLE         Growth of the literature on the topic of personality
> disorders
> AUTHOR        Blashfield RK, Intoccia V
> JOURNAL       AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
>                                    157: (3) 472-473 MAR 2000
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>  Document type: Article    Language: English    Cited References: 4
> Times Cited: 0
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> Abstract:
> Objective: The authors assessed the growth of the literature on the topic
> of personality disorders before and after publication of DSM-III, Method:A
> MEDLINE search was conducted for journal articles concerning the
> personality disorders that were published from 1966 to 1995, Results:
> Contrary to the authors' prediction, the growth of this literature was
> slower after the publication of DSM-III in 1980 than it was before that
> date. Other areas of psychopathology, such as Alzheimer's disease and
> posttraumatic stress disorder, have literatures whose growth rates since
> 1980 have exceeded their growth rates before publication of DSM-III,
> Conclusions: Over one-half of the individual personality disorders (e,g,,
> histrionic and passive-aggressive) have either
> very small literatures or literatures with negative growth rates. Only
> three personality disorders (i.e., antisocial, borderline, and
> schizotypal) have modestly
> growing literatures.
>
> Addresses:
> Blashfield RK, Auburn Univ, Dept Psychol, 226 Thach Hall, Auburn, AL 36849
> USA.
> Auburn Univ, Dept Psychol, Auburn, AL 36849 USA.
>
> Publisher:
> AMER PSYCHIATRIC PRESS, INC, WASHINGTON
>
> IDS Number:
> 291JP
>
> ISSN:
> 0002-953X
>
> Cited Author            Cited Work                Volume      Page
> Year
>
>  MENARD HW          SCI GROWTH CHANGE
> 1971
>  PRICE DDS             BIG SCI LITTLE SCI
> 1963
>  SHEA MT               DSM 4 PERSONALITY DI                   397
> 1995
>  TYRER P               DIAG TR MEN                                     29
> 1995
>
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