Fuller A K, Blashfield R K, Miller M, Hester T
Southwestern State Hospital, Thomasville, Georgia.
J Clin Psychol. 1992 Nov;48(6):827-31. doi: 10.1002/1097-4679(199211)48:6<827::aid-jclp2270480618>3.0.co;2-1.
A sample of 176 outpatients at a mental health clinic in rural southern Georgia were rated for the presence or absence of the DMS-III-R sadistic and self-defeating personality disorder criteria. On the basis of these ratings, 48 patients met the criteria for sadistic (n = 14) and self-defeating (n = 41). Surprisingly, half of the patients who met the sadistic criteria also fulfilled the self-defeating criteria. A factor analysis failed to divide the criteria cleanly into sadistic and self-defeating subsets.
