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Objective: Evaluates the personality of Administration students at night of a University in the northwest of Rio Grande
do Sul, looking from the identification of personality traits and indicative of disorders of it. Method: Quantitative,
descriptive, conducted from April to June of 2010. It used a sociodemographic questionnaire and a neuroticism scale
factor – it investigates vulnerability, psychosocial disturbance, anxiety and depression. Results: The prevalence of
leisure activities, that are related with welfare and quality of life. In the personality evaluation was found that most of
the students showed expected scores in the four dimensions evaluated, what means that they do not show disorders
symptoms. Conclusion: A large percentage of students showed scores that were not expected in the four dimensions
evaluated, indicating that important symptoms are experienced eventually

Disturbances in emotion are associated with the most of the diagnostic criteria of the personality disorders, though the role of emotional intelligence in the diagnosis of personality disorders has been the subject of limited research. The present study was designed to investigate the relationships between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) and personality disorder symptomatology in an undergraduate student sample. One hundred and twenty university students (28.3% male and 71.7 % female; M of age = 19.23, SD=2.45) were administered with (1) Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) (Petrides, 2009), along with (2) The Personality Disorder Questionnaire-4 (PDQ-4) (Hyler E. Steven, 1994). A multivariate analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect for group with individuals without any personality disorder symptomatology scoring significantly higher than individuals with some personality accentuations on most TEIQue facets. The results suggest that different components of emotional intelligence contribute to the development of different personality disorder symptomatology, but more research is required to replicate the results with the clinical population.
Key words: emotional intelligence, personality disorders.

In July 1999, radical and controversial proposals were put forward by the UK government for a new approach to the management of dangerous individuals with severe personality disorders. The Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme involved service development and research but its most contentious part was the proposal for new legislation to provide civil and criminal powers for the detention of DSPD individuals in new specialist high-secure units. The programme has been viewed by many commentators as evidence that concerns about risk have become the over-riding driver of contemporary mental health and penal policy and it has been described as a `psychiatric manifestation of the risk society'. In this article, it is argued that while the DSPD initiative does indeed embody the ascendance of `risk thinking' in recent years, the idea of risk needs to be broadened out and understood as a complex, multi-faceted and mobile formation. Crucially, it needs to be viewed in a more `substantively political light' rather than simply as a technocratic or instrumental development.

Personality disorders, and particularly antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), frequently co-occur with alcohol dependence. ASPD is considered to be an important cofactor in the pathogenesis and clinical course of alcohol dependence. The chronological relationship between the onset of symptoms of ASPD and alcohol-dependence characteristics has not yet been studied in great detail and the role of ASPD in classification schemes of alcohol dependence as suggested by Cloninger and Schuckit has yet to be determined. We studied 55 alcohol-dependent patients to assess the prevalence and age at manifestation of ASPD, conduct disorder characteristics as well as alcohol dependence by employing the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R. Results indicate that the onset of ASPD characteristics precede that of alcohol dependence by some 4 years. This finding suggests that in patients with ASPD, alcohol dependence might be a secondary syndrome as suggested by previous research.

This article presents a qualitative investigation of the perspectives and experiences of recovery from borderline personality disorder from six individuals who were treated with comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews, transcribed, and coded using a six-step analysis process. Six primary themes emerged: (1) belief about recovery, (2) current experience of self, (3) facets of recovery, (4) motivating factors, (5) external supports to recovery, and (6) characteristics required for recovery. Overall, the findings took a dialectical form in which participants often described conflicting experiences (e.g., feeling recovered while also continuing to experience heightened emotional sensitivity). We conclude that the themes presented in this article represent broad domains related to the meaning of recovery from BPD, and recognize that the relative importance of each domain is best determined by the individual.

This paper attempts to offer a perspective of the MPD phenomenon based on current clinical experience. The co-authors representing clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology are active in the treatment and research of over 60 patients manifesting the MPD disorder. Me authors take the
view that the mind is polypsychic with a multitude of psychological systems and processes existing in conjunction with one another; in the normal as well as in the abnormal. In the healthy individual, the unity of self is maintained by integrative and/or associative mechanisms. In the
MPD individual, ego states are dissociated or fragmented and poorly coordinated due to the effects of unusual stress on the unity of the sense of self. The alters appear as defensive strategies. Implications for personality theory need to be considered.

Patients with a clinical diagnosis of personality disorder (PD) often suffer prolonged distress. They are a considerable burden on psychiatric services and they are experienced as difficult to manage by their keyworkers. This paper describes the creation of a community-based case register of patients suffering from PD. It explores the relationship between psychological distress, personality dysfunction, service utilisation and keyworker stress. Mental Health workers were asked to identify those patients on their caseload whose primary problem was PD. This list provided the basis for the case register. Patients completed the revised Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire IV (PDQ 4); the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ); and the Beck Depression Inventory - 21 item (BDI). A brief, semi-structured interview was conducted by Community Psychiatric Nurses to estimate service utilisation and keyworker stress. The mean GHQ was 14.58; the mean BDI score was 28.22. The mean number of PDs per patient was 4.5. One quarter of patients (21/80) had been admitted at least once to a psychiatric ward in the previous year and 17% (13/80) had presented to casualty at least once in the previous two months. 57% of the patients had weekly or more contacts with a helping agency. The number of PD diagnoses per patient as measured by the PDQ 4 was not found to be predictive of stress experienced by CPNs, whereas high BDI and GHQ scores were strongly correlated. Similarly, the number of admissions to a psychiatric ward was associated with high BDI and GHQ scores but not with number of PDs per patient. It is feasible to establish a case register of all patients in the district with PD. There are high levels of depression and distress amorsgst patients with PD being treated as outpatients. Service utilisation and keyworker stress are not predicted by number of PDs per patient but are strongly associated with distress as measured by the GHQ and BDI, The implications of these findings are discussed.