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Relationship between personality and metal disorders
Emil Benedik
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Abstract: This article describes a relationship between personality, personality disorders and other mental disorders. We are also interested in possibility to include psychological methods and theory of personality in modern classifications of mental disorders, which represents classical medical model. This categorical model has lots of limitations, especially in field of personality disorders, which are psychological phenomenon in the first place. We are interested in alternative ways and model of describing this disorders, effectiveness of dimensional model and Kernberg criteria for determination of personality organisations.
Keywords: personality disorders, personality traits, personality dimensions, psychiatric patients, Kernberg psychostructural criteria, DSM-IV, ICD-10