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Personality Disorder Diagnosis

A personality disorder diagnosis is a form of evaluation undertaken by psychologists, psychiatrists and experts in the field where the (Emergence Plus, 2014), "mental health professional makes a diagnosis of personality disorder based on criteria given in one of two psychiatric manuals. In the UK and the rest of Europe, most clinicians use ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders (World Health Organisation, 1992). In America, clinicians use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -DSM IV (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). These manuals outline all mental health conditions and inform all diagnoses. The criteria for each of the different types of personality disorder from both manuals is combined and summarised below under ...

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