September 7, 2026
“A criminal record carried an odds ratio of 3.48 and a traumatic event 3.08, while three scored questionnaires carried 1.52, 1.06 and 1.04 for each point on their scales.”
“Cluster B was an exclusion criterion, so borderline personality disorder appears in 3 of the 250 participants and narcissistic personality disorder in none, while obsessive-compulsive personality disorder reaches 117 people, and whatever this trial could ever report about personality disorders was fixed at that screening line.”
“The comparator was not nothing. It was one crisis planning session at £86 a head, set against £878 for ten sessions of support.”
“Thirteen of the sixteen graded statements are addressed to every patient with a personality disorder without naming which one, and seven of the sixteen sit at the certainty level the rubricator reserves for expert opinion.”
“Across the Norwegian population the lifetime risk of an avoidant personality disorder diagnosis is 1.84% against 1.77% for borderline, and among men it is 1.42% against 0.73%.”
“Dissocial personality disorder heads a table of 38 diagnoses at 100%, and from there the severity of personality functioning decides which of the 56 recommendations apply.”