WPA Section on Personality Disorders.
World Psychiatry. 2010 Feb;9(1):56-60. doi: 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2010.tb00270.x.
Personality disorder is now being accepted as an important condition in mainstream psychiatry across the world. Although it often remains unrecognized in ordinary practice, research studies have shown it is common, creates considerable morbidity, is associated with high costs to services and to society, and interferes, usually negatively, with progress in the treatment of other mental disorders. We now have evidence that personality disorder, as currently classified, affects around 6% of the world population, and the differences between countries show no consistent variation. We are also getting increasing evidence that some treatments, mainly psychological, are of value in this group of disorders. What is now needed is a new classification that is of greater value to clinicians, and the WPA Section on Personality Disorders is currently undertaking this task.
人格障碍如今已被全球主流精神病学界所认可，是一种重要的病症。尽管它在常规实践中常常未被识别，但研究表明它十分常见，会导致相当高的发病率，与服务和社会成本的增加有关，并通常对其他精神障碍的治疗进展产生负面影响。我们现在有证据表明，目前分类的人格障碍影响了全球约 6%的人口，且各国之间的差异没有一致的变化。我们也越来越多地发现，一些治疗方法，主要是心理治疗，对这组疾病有价值。现在需要的是一种对临床医生更有价值的新分类，世界精神病学协会人格障碍分会目前正在承担这项任务。
