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Gender Differences in Personality Disorders

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Personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment. There has been a growing awareness of the importance of gender in medical treatment and research, and gender bias with regard to the criteria for personality disorders has been controversial. We summarize what some of the literature considers about sex differences and also take a look at gender bias, sometimes proved by studies, with regard to some of the diagnoses.

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  1. Zamudio Hospital, Vizcaya, Spain

    Eva Garnica de Cos

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    Margarita Sáenz-Herrero

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de Cos, E.G. (2015). Gender Differences in Personality Disorders. In: Sáenz-Herrero, M. (eds) Psychopathology in Women. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05870-2_30

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