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Research on personality disorders in Norway *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

P Vaglum
P Vaglum*
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine, University of Oslo, PO Box 1111, Blindern, N-0317Oslo 3, Norway
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Summary

Norway was the first European country to be introduced to the American diagnostic system DSM III. In this paper the author presents some of the main results of the Norwegian studies of the DSM III personality disorders with particular emphasis on validity, comorbidity and treatment.

Keywords

personality disorderDSM IIINorwegian psychiatry
Type
Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , 1992 , pp. 9 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1992

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