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A multidimensional meta-analysis of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for obsessive-compulsive disorderKamryn T Eddy
Department of Psychology, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 24:1011-30. 2004..More research on combined pharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions is also indicated...- A prototype approach to personality disorder diagnosisDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 N Kilgo Cir, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:846-56. 2006..This study tested an alternative, prototype matching procedure designed to simplify diagnosis. The procedure was applied to personality disorders... - A prototype matching approach to diagnosing personality disorders: toward DSM-VD Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, USA
J Pers Disord 14:109-26. 2000.... - Developments in cognitive neuroscience: II. Implications for theories of transferenceDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 50:99-134. 2002.... - Developments in cognitive neuroscience: I. Conflict, compromise, and connectionismDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 50:53-98. 2002..These include the nature of representations, the interaction of cognition and affect, and the mechanisms by which the mind unconsciously forges compromise solutions that best fit multiple cognitive and affective-motivational constraints... - A multidimensional meta-analysis of treatments for depression, panic, and generalized anxiety disorder: an empirical examination of the status of empirically supported therapiesD Westen
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders and Department of Psychology, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 69:875-99. 2001..These include exclusion rates, percent improved, percent recovered, percent who remained improved or recovered at follow-up, percent seeking additional treatment at follow-up, and data on both completer and intent-to-treat samples... - Personality profiles in eating disorders: rethinking the distinction between axis I and axis IID Westen
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, 648 Beacon St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:547-62. 2001..The authors assessed the utility of segregating eating disorders and personality pathology and examined the extent to which personality patterns account for meaningful variation within axis I eating disorder diagnoses... - Revising and assessing axis II, Part II: toward an empirically based and clinically useful classification of personality disordersD Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Am J Psychiatry 156:273-85. 1999..An alternative approach that quantifies clinical observation may prove useful in developing a clinically rich, useful, empirically grounded classification of personality pathology... - Revising and assessing axis II, Part I: developing a clinically and empirically valid assessment methodD Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Am J Psychiatry 156:258-72. 1999..These problems suggest the need for consideration of alternative approaches to assessing and revising axis II... - Limitations of axis II in diagnosing personality pathology in clinical practiceD Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and The Cambridge Hospital Cambridge Health Alliance, MA 02139, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:1767-71. 1998..The authors examined the percentage of patients treated in clinical practice for personality pathology who are diagnosable with DSM-IV... - Divergences between clinical and research methods for assessing personality disorders: implications for research and the evolution of axis IID Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Psychiatry 154:895-903. 1997..The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which instruments for assessing axis II diverge from clinical diagnostic processes... - Affect regulation and affective experience: individual differences, group differences, and measurement using a Q-sort procedureD Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 65:429-39. 1997..Study 2 showed that the AREQ can be applied reliably using an interview that avoids many of the problems of self-report... - The scientific status of unconscious processes: is Freud really dead?D Westen
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 47:1061-106. 1999.... 
Refining the construct of narcissistic personality disorder: diagnostic criteria and subtypesEric Russ
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:1473-81. 2008..This study was designed to provide an empirically valid and clinically rich portrait of narcissistic personality disorder and to identify subtypes of the disorder...- The relationship of adult attachment constructs to object relational patterns of representing self and othersMary L Calabrese
Newton, MA, USA
J Am Acad Psychoanal Dyn Psychiatry 33:513-30. 2005..In addition, multiple dimensions of object relationships were found to be significantly associated with participants' relationship status (current involvement in a significant relationship) and their parents' marital status... - The structure of axis II disorders in adolescents: a cluster- and factor-analytic investigation of DSM-IV categories and criteriaChristine Durrett
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, USA
J Personal Disord 19:440-61. 2005..Whether this is an optimal way of diagnosing personality pathology in adolescence, however, requires further investigation... - Countertransference phenomena and personality pathology in clinical practice: an empirical investigationEphi Betan
Georgia School of Professional Psychology, 980 Hammond Dr, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30328, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:890-8. 2005..This study provides initial data on the reliability and factor structure of a measure of countertransference processes in clinical practice and examines the relation between these processes and patients' personality pathology... - Transference patterns in the psychotherapy of personality disorders: empirical investigationRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Br J Psychiatry 186:342-9. 2005..These processes can be measured in clinically sophisticated and psychometrically sound ways. Such processes are relatively independent of clinicians' theoretical orientation... - The psychodynamics of borderline personality disorder: a view from developmental psychopathologyRebekah Bradley
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:927-57. 2005.... - Clinical assessment of pathological personality traitsDrew Westen
Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, 532 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1285-7. 2006..The aim of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the dimensional diagnosis of pathological personality traits with the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-200 (SWAP-200) Q sort... - Is the appendix a useful appendage? An empirical examination of depressive, passive-aggressive (negativistic), sadistic, and self-defeating personality disordersRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Pers Disord 20:524-40. 2006..Sadistic and self-defeating PD do not appear to represent distinct disorders, although they include personality traits (sadism and revictimization) associated with distinct developmental histories... - Clinical assessment of attachment patterns and personality disorder in adolescents and adultsDrew Westen
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:1065-85. 2006..Factor analysis identified 4 dimensions that replicated across adolescent and adult samples on the basis of a combination of interpersonal and narrative indicators: secure, dismissing, preoccupied, and incoherent/disorganized... - Under the axis II radar: clinically relevant personality constellations that escape DSM-IV diagnosisPavel S Blagov
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:477-83. 2007..The results of this study should stimulate further research on subthreshold personality configurations... - Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: validation of a classification approachHeather Thompson-Brenner
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, 648 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:170-80. 2008..The current study investigated whether similar personality prototypes exist in adolescents with EDs, and whether these personality prototypes show relationships to external correlates indicative of diagnostic validity... - Clinical utility of five dimensional systems for personality diagnosis: a "consumer preference" studyRobert L Spitzer
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:356-74. 2008..A prototype matching approach to personality diagnosis deserves consideration for DSM-V... - Relationship between clinician assessment and self-assessment of personality disorders using the SWAP-200 and PAIRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychol Assess 19:225-9. 2007..As predicted, SWAP-200 obsessive-compulsive personality disorder correlated negatively with these scales, suggesting discriminant validity... - Quantifying clinical judgment in the assessment of adolescent psychopathology: Reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Child Behavior Checklist for clinician reportLissa Dutra
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
J Clin Psychol 60:65-85. 2004..The data suggest that clinical judgment can be both reliable and valid when quantified using psychometrically sound instruments... - Rethinking therapeutic actionGlen O Gabbard
Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Psychoanal 84:823-41. 2003..They propose that, in all forms of psychoanalytic treatment, we would be more accurate to speak of the therapeutic actions, rather than action... - Parental bonding and personality pathology assessed by clinician reportEric Russ
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Personal Disord 17:522-36. 2003..Clinician-report methods may provide a useful complement to studies of personality disorders that rely primarily on self-reports or structured interviews... - Personality diagnoses in adolescence: DSM-IV axis II diagnoses and an empirically derived alternativeDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University School of Medicine, 532 North Kligo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:952-66. 2003.... - Implications of developments in cognitive neuroscience for psychoanalytic psychotherapyDrew Westen
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 10:369-73. 2002 - Refining personality disorder diagnosis: integrating science and practiceJonathan Shedler
Graduate School of Professional Psychology, University of Denver, 2450 S Vine St, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1350-65. 2004..This article proposes changes to the diagnostic categories and criteria based on empirical findings from a national sample of patients with personality disorder diagnoses... - Dimensions of personality pathology: an alternative to the five-factor modelJonathan Shedler
Graduate School of Professional Psychology, University of Denver, 2450 South Vine St, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1743-54. 2004..This study evaluates the clinical comprehensiveness of the five-factor model and addresses the broader question of how many factors, and which factors, are necessary to understand personality pathology... - Relationship between attachment patterns and personality pathology in adolescentsOra Nakash-Eisikovits
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders and Department of Psychology, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:1111-23. 2002..To explore the relationship between attachment status and personality pathology in a large clinical sample of adolescents... - The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP): making personality diagnosis clinically meaningfulJonathan Shedler
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
J Pers Assess 89:41-55. 2007..text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) Axis II, that is empirically grounded, clinically relevant, and practical for routine use in both clinical and research contexts... - Personality diagnosis with the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP): integrating clinical and statistical measurement and predictionDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:810-22. 2007..Finally, the article discusses future research directions and challenges... - Etiology of borderline personality disorder: disentangling the contributions of intercorrelated antecedentsRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:24-31. 2005..The results converge with recent studies using very different samples and methodologies... - Quantifying construct validity: two simple measuresDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:608-18. 2003.... - The external validity of controlled clinical trials of psychotherapy for depression and anxiety: a naturalistic studyKate H Morrison
Counseling Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Psychol Psychother 76:109-32. 2003.... - A multidimensional meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy for bulimia nervosa: summarizing the range of outcomes in controlled clinical trialsOra Nakash-Eisikovits
Department of Psychology and Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 10:193-211. 2002.... - When clinical description becomes statistical predictionDrew Westen
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am Psychol 59:595-613. 2004..An emerging body of research suggests that clinical observations, just like lay observations, can be quantified using standard psychometric procedures, so that clinical description becomes statistical prediction... - Assessing personality disorders using a systematic clinical interview: evaluation of an alternative to structured interviewsDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Pers Disord 17:351-69. 2003.... - Improving construct validity: Cronbach, Meehl, and Neurath's shipDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
Psychol Assess 17:409-12. 2005.... - A multidimensional meta-analysis of psychotherapy for PTSDRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:214-27. 2005..The authors present a multidimensional meta-analysis of studies published between 1980 and 2003 on psychotherapy for PTSD... - Assessing adolescent personality pathologyDrew Westen
Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, 532 N Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Br J Psychiatry 186:227-38. 2005..Personality pathology constitutes a major form of psychopathology in adolescents... - Borderline personality disorder in clinical practiceCarolyn Zittel Conklin
The Cambridge Hospital Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:867-75. 2005.... - Personality subtypes in eating disorders: validation of a classification in a naturalistic sampleHeather Thompson-Brenner
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, 648 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Br J Psychiatry 186:516-24. 2005..Research has identified three personality subtypes in patients with eating disorders: emotionally dysregulated, constricted and high-functioning/perfectionistic... - The borderline personality diagnosis in adolescents: gender differences and subtypesRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychiatry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46:1006-19. 2005.... - A naturalistic study of psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa, part 1: comorbidity and therapeutic outcomeHeather Thompson-Brenner
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:573-84. 2005..These patients showed higher pretreatment severity and required longer treatments to achieve positive outcomes relative to patients who did not meet these exclusion criteria... - A naturalistic study of psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa, part 2: therapeutic interventions in the communityHeather Thompson-Brenner
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:585-95. 2005.... - The empirical status of empirically supported psychotherapies: assumptions, findings, and reporting in controlled clinical trialsDrew Westen
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychol Bull 130:631-63. 2004.... - Personality constellations in patients with a history of childhood sexual abuseRebekah Bradley
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Trauma Stress 18:769-80. 2005..The four groups differed on diagnostic, adaptive functioning, and developmental history variables, providing initial support for the validity of this classification. The data have potential methodological and treatment implications... - Affect regulation in borderline personality disorderCarolyn Zittel Conklin
Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:69-77. 2006..BPD patients also show distinct patterns of affect regulation, and subtypes of BPD patients show distinct affect regulation profiles of potential relevance to treatment...