FEATURED ARTICLES BY DR. JAMES REICH

3/21/2025· Psychiatry

Competing Models Of Personality Disorders

By: Dr. James Reich

This paper reviews the virtues of applying a dimensional model and/or the more traditional categorical model to classification of personality disorders. The authors suggest how the particular merits of both might be incorporated. A model is proposed that organizes personality typology around a dimension of severity of impairment or dysfunction.

7/19/2024· Psychiatry

Comparisons of Males and Females With DSM-III Dependent Personality Disorder

By: Dr. James Reich

To determine whether DSM-III dependent personality disorder (PD) differed in males and females, 30 females and 11 males with this diagnosis were selected from a psychiatric outpatient population. Standardized measures of Axis I, Axis II, and family history were used.

2/28/2024· Psychiatry

Paranoid Personality Traits In A Panic Disorder Population: A Pilot Study

By: Dr. James Reich

To better understand the relationship between panic disorder and paranoid personality, panic disorder patients (N = 28) who were referred to an anxiety disorder clinic in a community mental health center were evaluated for paranoid personality traits on a standardized personality self-report instrument.

12/4/2023· Psychiatry

An Empirical Data Comparison Of Regulatory Agency And Malpractice Legal Problems For Psychiatrists

By: Dr. James Reich

Medical board discipline findings indicate that psychiatrists are at increased risk of disciplinary action compared with other specialties. NPDB data indicated relatively infrequent problems for psychiatrists. In malpractice, psychiatry accounted for a small percentage of overall claims and settlements. Overall, more years in practice and a lack of board certification increased the risk of legal difficulties.

12/14/2022· Psychiatry

Criteria For Diagnosing DSM-III Borderline Personality Disorders

By: Dr. James Reich

One hundred fifty-nine psychiatric outpatients were examined to determine which of the DSM-III Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) criteria were most valid in terms of sensitivity, specificity, predictive power positive, and predictive power negative. Combinations of two criteria predicted

9/19/2022· Psychiatry

An Empirical Examination Of The Concept of "Stress-Induced" Personality Disorders

By: Dr. James Reich

This article examines the problem of stress-induced personality disorders empirically. Three different groups—state personality disorder, stress-induced personality disorder, and no personality disorder—are compared on clinical symptoms, functioning, and family history.

6/21/2022· Psychiatry

The Structural Interview Method For Diagnosing Borderline Disorders: A Critique

By: Dr. James Reich

The authors discuss difficulties in the assumptions that underlie Kernberg's Structural Interview method for diagnosing borderline personality organization and demonstrate methodological limitations in the studies that have reported results from its use.

3/30/2022· Forensic Psychiatry

Personality Of Panic Disorder Alcohol Abusers

By: Dr. James Reich

There has been little scientific investigation of the relationship between anxiety disorders and alcohol abuse and none examining differences in personality factors between those anxiety disorder patients with and without a history of alcohol abuse. There is evidence, however, for an overlap of alcohol abuse and anxiety disorders.

1/25/2022· Forensic Psychiatry

Drug Treatment Of Personality Disorder Traits

By: Dr. James Reich

This article examines these pharmacological treatments. It first examines some of the drugs that have been used and some of the evidence for their effectiveness. It then takes the mindset of a clinician and looks at how some symptom clusters might be approached.