Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Personality Disorders

Personality disorders are enduring mental health conditions characterised by inflexible, pervasive patterns of cognition, affect, interpersonal functioning and impulse control that deviate markedly from cultural expectations, emerge by adolescence or early adulthood, and cause distress or impairment across multiple …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 51× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Personality disorders are enduring mental health conditions characterised by inflexible, pervasive patterns of cognition, affect, interpersonal functioning and impulse control that deviate markedly from cultural expectations, emerge by adolescence or early adulthood, and cause distress or impairment across multiple life domains. Contemporary classifications group them into clusters spanning odd or eccentric, dramatic or erratic, and anxious or fearful presentations, including borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, while dimensional models describe maladaptive variants of normal personality traits. Their development reflects an interplay of temperament, genetic vulnerability, early attachment disruption and adverse experience, and they commonly co-occur with mood, anxiety, dissociative and substance-use disorders, complicating diagnosis and treatment. Management centres on structured, evidence-based psychotherapies that target emotion regulation, identity, mentalisation and interpersonal patterns, sometimes supported by adjunctive pharmacotherapy for specific symptoms. The peer-reviewed research collected here engages allied clinical themes, including the use of cognitive-analytic and short-term dynamic psychotherapies, dissociative phenomena and amnesia, identity formation and autobiographical memory in adolescence, deviant behaviour and psychological assessment, and suicide prevention, reflecting the broader study of personality, identity and maladaptive behaviour within psychotherapy practice and research.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 51 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Personality Disorders, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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