Personality profiles in eating disorders: rethinking the distinction between axis I and axis II.

@article{Westen2001PersonalityPI,
  title={Personality profiles in eating disorders: rethinking the distinction between axis I and axis II.},
  author={Dagmar Westen and J H Harnden-Fischer},
  journal={The American journal of psychiatry},
  year={2001},
  volume={158 4},
  pages={547-62}
}

• Dagmar Westen, J H Harnden-Fischer
• Published 2001 in The American journal of psychiatry

OBJECTIVE Like other DSM-IV axis I syndromes, eating disorders are diagnosed without respect to personality, which is coded on axis II. 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… CONTINUE READING

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