BACKGROUND The treatment of personality disorder is repeatedly reported as less successful than the treatment of patients without personality disorder. Most clinicians believe that anxiety disorder in tandem with a personality disorder often leads to longer treatment, worsens the prognosis, and thus increases treatment costs. Our study was designed to compare the short-term effectiveness of the...

OBJECTIVES Although aggressive behavior has been associated with bipolar disorder (BD), it has also been linked with developmental factors and disorders frequently found to be comorbid with BD, making it unclear whether or not it represents an underlying biological disturbance intrinsic to bipolar illness. We therefore sought to identify predictors of trait aggression in a sample of adults with...

The aim of the present study was to explore associations between Big-Five (B-F) personality factors and obsession-compulsion. A sample Khartoum University students recruited (N = 547). They responded Arabic Personality Inventory Scale Obsession-Compulsion-Revised. Results indicated that women obtained a significantly higher mean scores than did men on agreeableness, neuroticism, extraversion, b...

Editorial Personality disorders in the workplace Personality disorders are probably the most common form of mental disorder. The reason for 'probably' is that the classification of personality disorder has been defective for many years and, as one of the consequences of this, it has been relatively under-diagnosed. Currently, the two official classification systems in psychiatry (the Diagnostic...