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Interactions Of Borderline Personality Disorder And Mood Disorders Over Ten Years, John G. Gunderson, Robert L. Stout, M. Tracie Shea, Carlos M. Grilo, John C. Markowitz, Leslie C. Morey, Charles A. Sanislow, Shirley Yen, Mary C. Zanarini, Alex S. Keuroghlian, Thomas H. Mcglashan, Andrew E. Skodol

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Objective: To examine the relationship of borderline personality disorder (BPD) to mood disorders by using data from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study on the reciprocal interactions of BPD with both depressive and bipolar disorders over the course of 10 years.

Method: The study included 223 BPD patients with DSM-IV–defined co-occurring major depressive disorder (MDD) (n = 161), bipolar I disorder (n = 34), and bipolar II disorder (n = 28) who were reliably and prospectively assessed over a period of 10 years between 1997 and 2009. Proportional hazards regression analyses were used to assess the effects of improvement or …

Personality Heterogeneity In Ptsd: Distinct Temperamental And Interpersonal Typologies, Katherine M. Thomas, Christopher J. Hopwood, M. Brent Donnellan, Aidan G. C. Wright, Charles A. Sanislow, Meghan E. Mcdevitt-Murphy, Emily B. Ansell, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. Mcglashan, M. Tracie Shea, John C. Markowitz, Andrew E. Skodol, Mary C. Zanarini, Leslie C. Morey

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Researchers examining personality typologies of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have consistently identified 3 groups: low pathology, internalizing, and externalizing. These groups have been found to predict functional severity and psychiatric comorbidity. In this study, we employed Latent Profile Analysis to compare this previously established typology, grounded in temperament traits (negative emotionality; positive emotionality; constraint), to a novel typology rooted in interpersonal traits (dominance; warmth) in a sample of individuals with PTSD (n = 155). Using Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP) traits to create latent profiles, the 3-group temperament model was replicated. Using Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC) traits to create …