The impact of avoidant personality disorder on psychosocial impairment is substantial

2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 390-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Wilberg ◽  
Sigmund Karterud ◽  
Geir Pedersen ◽  
Øyvind Urnes
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Avoidant Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychosocial Impairment ◽  
The Impact

Bulimia nervosa with co-morbid avoidant personality disorder: behavioural characteristics and serotonergic function

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. BRUCE ◽  
H. STEIGER ◽  
N. M. KOERNER ◽  
M. ISRAEL ◽  
S. N. YOUNG
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Lower Sensitivity ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Behavioural Inhibition ◽  
Avoidant Personality Disorder ◽  
Affective Instability ◽  
The Impact

Background. Separate lines of research link lowered serotonin tone to interpersonal submissiveness and bulimia nervosa (BN). We explored the impact of co-morbid avoidant personality disorder (APD), as a proxy for submissiveness, on behavioural inhibition and serotonin function in women with BN.Method. Participants included women with BN with co-morbid APD (BNA+, N=13); women with BN but without APD (BNA−, N=23), and control women with neither BN nor APD (N=23). The women were assessed for psychopathological tendencies and eating disorder symptoms, and participated in a computerized laboratory task that measured behavioural inhibition and disinhibition. Participants also provided blood samples for measurement of serial prolactin responses following oral administration of the partial 5-HT agonist meta-chlorophenylpiperazine (m-CPP).Results. The BNA+ group had higher scores than the other groups on self-report measures of submissiveness, social avoidance, restricted emotional expression, affective instability and self-harming behaviours. Compared with the other groups, the BNA+ group tended to be more inhibited under cues for punishment on the computerized task and to have blunted prolactin response following m-CPP. The bulimic groups did not differ from each other on current eating symptoms or on frequencies of other mental disorders.Conclusions. Findings indicate that women with BN and co-morbid APD may be characterized by interpersonal submissiveness and avoidance, affective instability, self-harm, behavioural inhibition in response to threat and lower sensitivity to serotonergic activation. These findings may indicate common, serotonergic factors, associated with social submissiveness, behavioural inhibition to threat and BN.

Psychological interventions for avoidant personality disorder

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uzair Ahmed ◽  
Simon Gibbon ◽  
Hannah F Jones ◽  
Nick Huband ◽  
Michael Ferriter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychological Interventions ◽  
Avoidant Personality Disorder

Avoidant personality disorder increases the detection of first degree relatives affected by a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis

2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-81
Author(s):  
D.L. Fogelson ◽  
K.H. Nuechterlein ◽  
R.A. Asarnow ◽  
K.L. Subotnik ◽  
D.L. Payne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Avoidant Personality Disorder ◽  
First Degree Relatives ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum
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