Cluster B personality disorders

June 20, 2022 — August 26, 2022

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Cluster B personality disorders include Antisocial personality disorder, Narcissism, Borderline personality disorder, and Histrionic personality disorder. I am not a fan of medicalising things unnecessarily so I am not going to go around diagnosing people with full-blown cases of these disorders

1 Prevalence

Bill Eddy, Are Narcissists and Sociopaths Increasing?

Between 2001 and 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded the largest study ever done regarding the prevalence of personality disorders in the United States. Structured interviews were done with approximately 35,000 people who were randomly selected to be representative of the U.S. adult population in a variety of ways including age, income, gender and region. This study found that 6.2% of the general population would meet the criteria for NPD (Stinson et al. 2008) and 3.7% would meet the criteria for ASPD (5.5% male and 1.9% female) (Grant et al. 2004).

See also Sanz-García et al. (2021).

2 Incoming

3 References

Cailhol, Lionel, Éric Pelletier, Louis Rochette, Lise Laporte, Pierre David, Évens Villeneuve, Joel Paris, and Alain Lesage. 2017. “Prevalence, Mortality, and Health Care Use Among Patients with Cluster B Personality Disorders Clinically Diagnosed in Quebec: A Provincial Cohort Study, 2001-2012.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie 62 (5): 336–42.
Chapman, Jennifer, Radia T. Jamil, and Carl Fleisher. 2022. “Borderline Personality Disorder.” In StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing.
Cohen, Patricia, Henian Chen, Kathy Gordon, Jeffrey Johnson, Judith Brook, and Stephanie Kasen. 2008. “Socioeconomic Background and the Developmental Course of Schizotypal and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms.” Development and Psychopathology 20 (2): 10.1017/S095457940800031X.
Grant, Bridget F., Deborah S. Hasin, Frederick S. Stinson, Deborah A. Dawson, S. Patricia Chou, W. June Ruan, and Roger P. Pickering. 2004. “Prevalence, Correlates, and Disability of Personality Disorders in the United States: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.” The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 65 (7): 15404.
Huart, Delfine d’, Martin Steppan, Süheyla Seker, David Bürgin, Cyril Boonmann, Marc Birkhölzer, Nils Jenkel, Jörg M. Fegert, Marc Schmid, and Klaus Schmeck. 2022. “Prevalence and 10-Year Stability of Personality Disorders From Adolescence to Young Adulthood in a High-Risk Sample.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 13.
Sanz-García, Ana, Clara Gesteira, Jesús Sanz, and María Paz García-Vera. 2021. “Prevalence of Psychopathy in the General Adult Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Frontiers in Psychology 12.
Skoglund, Charlotte, Annika Tiger, Christian Rück, Predrag Petrovic, Philip Asherson, Clara Hellner, David Mataix-Cols, and Ralf Kuja-Halkola. 2021. “Familial Risk and Heritability of Diagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder: A Register Study of the Swedish Population.” Molecular Psychiatry 26 (3): 999–1008.
Stinson, Frederick S., Deborah A. Dawson, Risë B. Goldstein, S. Patricia Chou, Boji Huang, Sharon M. Smith, W. June Ruan, et al. 2008. “Prevalence, Correlates, Disability, and Comorbidity of DSM-IV Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Results From the Wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.” The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 69 (7): 15401.
Walsh, Zach, M. Tracie Shea, Shirley Yen, Emily B. Ansell, Carlos M. Grilo, Thomas H. McGlashan, Robert L. Stout, et al. 2013. “Socioeconomic-Status and Mental Health in a Personality Disorder Sample: The Importance of Neighbourhood Factors.” Journal of Personality Disorders 27 (6): 820–31.
Werner, Kimberly B., Lauren R. Few, and Kathleen K. Bucholz. 2015. “Epidemiology, Comorbidity, and Behavioral Genetics of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy.” Psychiatric Annals 45 (4): 195–99.
Williams, Lana J., Shae E. Quirk, Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen, Risto Honkanen, Julie A. Pasco, Amanda L. Stuart, Bianca E. Kavanagh, Jeremi Heikkinen, and Michael Berk. 2020. “Personality Disorder and Physical Health Comorbidities: A Link With Bone Health?” Frontiers in Psychiatry 11.