"Personality disorder should not be regarded as a psychiatric diagnosis".

calfmuscle

Well I am being a bit bold here, I am working on an essay on this topic at the minute. However I do think it is an interesting topic that some the people who post here might want to discuss.

Personally, I think they should be considered risk factors in much the same way as high cholesterol is. That is to say there are personality traits that may be stronger or weaker than the norm that may or may not develop to a point that they affect the persons daily living etc.

cambridge

Why not?

We shouldn't consider outliers as medical syndromes/conditions?
We shouldn't further stigmatise psychological disorders?
Health insurance?
Work reasons?

Can you at least give us 5 lines on your opinion, the medical consensus and the opposition's?

locum-motion

I'm sorry I don't see the point of your post; do you want to have a debate about whether the thread title is true or not, or are you presenting that as a fact? You've put quotation marks around it. Who is it a quote from? Was it a conclusion to a study? What study? What journal published it? Or is it your personal opinion?

cambridge

locum-motion wrote: »

I'm sorry I don't see the point of your post; do you want to have a debate about whether the thread title is true or not, or are you presenting that as a fact? You've put quotation marks around it. Who is it a quote from? Was it a conclusion to a study? What study? What journal published it? Or is it your personal opinion?

sounds like an essay title

calfmuscle

cambridge wrote: »

Why not?

We shouldn't consider outliers as medical syndromes/conditions?
We shouldn't further stigmatise psychological disorders?
Health insurance?
Work reasons?

Can you at least give us 5 lines on your opinion, the medical consensus and the opposition's?

If you can wait till 3pm tomorrow I'll give you 1500 words on it .

I dont know what you mean by "outliers"?

The thread title is the statement that I have to discuss using relevant literature so please dont think its my opinion.

At the minute Im leaning towards thinking that "disorder", "risk factor" or "condition" are better terminology to describe personality disorders rather than a psychiatric diagnosis/illness.
We
"recognise that some professionals and service
users are uneasy with the idea that personality
can be ‘disordered’ or ‘abnormal’, particularly
since ‘personality disorder’ is sometimes used
pejoratively. However, the term ‘disorder’ has no
precise meaning in medicine or psychology, and
criteria of ‘healthy’ functioning always depend
on what society values rather than absolute
standards. We nevertheless believe that these
criteria are not entirely arbitrary. However, we
emphasise that disabling personality
characteristics are most appropriately viewed as
part of a continuum of personality functioning,
rather than as discrete abnormalities." From the British psychological society report 2006.

locum-motion

cambridge wrote: »

sounds like an essay title

Yes, but even if it were an essay title, it would make more sense if it was presented as "Prof Joe Bloggs stated that 'Personality disorder ...'. Discuss"

calfmuscle

locum-motion wrote: »

I'm sorry I don't see the point of your post; do you want to have a debate about whether the thread title is true or not, or are you presenting that as a fact? You've put quotation marks around it. Who is it a quote from? Was it a conclusion to a study? What study? What journal published it? Or is it your personal opinion?

Sorry I said in my OP im working on an essay at the minute this is a statement I have to critique. But I also thought it was an interesting subject that people may wish to discuss.
Then I wrote my thoughts so far - "Personally, I think they should be considered risk factors in much the same way as high cholesterol is. That is to say there are personality traits that may be stronger or weaker than the norm that may or may not develop to a point that they affect the persons daily living etc."

locum-motion

calfmuscle wrote: »

Sorry I said in my OP im working on an essay at the minute this is a statement I have to critique. But I also thought it was an interesting subject that people may wish to discuss.
Then I wrote my thoughts so far - "Personally, I think they should be considered risk factors in much the same way as high cholesterol is. That is to say there are personality traits that may be stronger or weaker than the norm that may or may not develop to a point that they affect the persons daily living etc."

OK so it's a statement to critique.
Who made the statement?
Give some background.

Also, it doesn't really crop up in Health Sciences too often, but some of the other science forums, Mathematics in particular, there's a rule that you shouldn't expect other Boardsies to do your homework for you.

calfmuscle

locum-motion wrote: »

OK so it's a statement to critique.
Who made the statement?
Give some background.

Also, it doesn't really crop up in Health Sciences too often, but some of the other science forums, Mathematics in particular, there's a rule that you shouldn't expect other Boardsies to do your homework for you.

Dont worry I have no intention of plagerising or referencing boards.ie! :pac:
Is it weird that I am actually procrastination by discussing the topic! lol

There is no reference for the statement, so I imagine its the Dr. who set the question.

Here is a little bit of background- "The question of whether personality disorders are mental disorders cannot usefully be discussed until agreement has been reached on the implications of the term "mental disorder", and at present there are at least four quite different, rival concepts of the disease or disorder." (kendel, 2002)

cambridge

well?

calfmuscle

cambridge wrote: »

well?

Nope shouldn't be

cambridge

ok i'll pm you my email and you can send it if you want. if you'd rather not share, no worries, just ignore the pm.