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The relationship between obsessive-compulsive personality and obsessive-compulsive disorder: data obtained by the Personality Disorder Examination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

D Cassano ,
G Del Buono  and
F Catapano
D Cassano
Affiliation:
Department of psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Istituto di Psichiatria, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138Naples, Italy
G Del Buono
Affiliation:
Department of psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Istituto di Psichiatria, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138Naples, Italy
F Catapano
Affiliation:
Department of psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Istituto di Psichiatria, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138Naples, Italy
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Summary

We administered the Personality Disorder Examination (PDE) to 31 patients meeting DSM III criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and to an age-and sex-matched healthy control group. Seventeen patients (54.8%) and four controls (12.9%) met criteria for one or more DSM III Axis II diagnoses. The most frequent Axis II diagnoses in patients were avoidant, passive-aggressive and compulsive personality disorder. Compulsive personality disorder was diagnosed in 6 OCD patients (19.3%). The prevalence of this disorder did not change according to sex, age of onset or duration of OCD, and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Keywords

DSM III compulsive personality disorderobsessive-compulsive disorderAxis II diagnosiscluster C
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European Psychiatry , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 219 - 221
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1993

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