Chapter 18.Personality Disorders
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Compared with many other psychiatric disorders, personality disorders are relatively difficult and time intensive to diagnose and treat. In elderly persons, personality problems are confounded by a variety of additional issues, both negative and positive. The natural history of personality in later life is affected by the combination of increasing medical-neuropsychiatric comorbidity with ongoing normal psychosocial development.
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