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Pharmacotherapy of Personality Disorders

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While the major pathogenic theory of personality disorders held by American psychiatrists is psychoanalytic (Abraham, 1949; Reich, 1949; Knight, 1953; Kernberg, 1975), the biological approach to personality disorders has an equally lengthy history. The modern era began with Kraepelin (1921), who observed affective temperaments in the premorbid history of many manic depressives and their non-ill biological relatives. Later investigators, such as Kretschmer (1936) and Schneider (1959) described constitutional factors thought to underlie both normal and deviant personality types. The major thrust of these studies was the notion that diluted versions of major schizophrenic, affective, and organic disorders could express themselves as chronic, maladaptive patterns of experiencing and functioning in the world; that is, personality disorders. With the modern tools of psychopharmacology, psychobiology, family studies, and clinical studies, these theories can be better tested.

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  1. University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Manfred Clynes (Research Professor of Neuropsychology) (Research Professor of Neuropsychology)

  2. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

    Jaak Panksepp (Distinguished Research Professor) (Distinguished Research Professor)

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Liebowitz, M.R. (1988). Pharmacotherapy of Personality Disorders. In: Clynes, M., Panksepp, J. (eds) Emotions and Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1987-1_4

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