Personality Disorders

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Your article turns to my comments about mental illness and what links to underlying personality traits or disorders may exist. Your references to "some experts" suggest there is conflict within the mainstream.

I'm an advocate here for the Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW which among other (hands-on support) things is a leading lobby group for all mental health issues within my State. Leading experts here refer to 'the schizophrenias'. Their comment is no consensus has been reached as to the real value in sub-typing the schizophrenias. The sub-types they identify are: paranoid, hebephrenic, catatonic, undifferentiated and residual. This is not the same thing as your examples, I understand, as yours refers to types within a "spectrum" but I thought I'd clarify just in case of confusion.
(source: 'The Schizophrenias - Guidelines for a holistic approach to clinical practice' published by the NSW Government)

An opportunisitc mention follows as I'm currently in the throes of seeking funding for more research dollars:

"...nearly 80% of disability associated with schizophrenia is completely untreatable...current treatments are inefficient...psychotic disorders represent the tip of a genetic iceberg which also causes many chronic non-psychotic disorders..."

are among several findings of the APRN, a research body I mentioned in the other topic.

We swiped the USA's NIH's Professor Cyndi Weickert to take up Australia's first Professor of Schizophrenia Research in the field of developmental neurobiology. Have you heard of her?

-- posted by redback

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