The University of the West Indies, Mona

Keywords:

psychological blind spots

Shakatani

Caribbean short stories

historiography

psychological scotoma

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Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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The Prevalence of Personality Disorder in a General Medical Hospital Population in Jamaica

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DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.066

Pages:

463–7

Synopsis:

The prevalence of personality disorder assessed by the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI), the International Personality Disorder Examination Screening questionnaire (IPDE-S) and the consultant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition-text revision (DSM IV-TR) instruments in medical wards in Jamaica is significantly higher than the prevalence rate of studies in other countries. The prevalence rate identified by the IPDE-S was significantly higher that the local instruments used.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To determine the prevalence of personality disorders in patients admitted to the general medical wards of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).

Received:

05 Mar, 2013

Accepted:

25 Mar, 2013

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Keywords:

prevalence

Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory

Jamaican medical ward population

International Personality Disorder Examination Screening Questionnaire (IPDE-S)

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV-TR

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The Prevalence of Personality Disorder in a Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Population in Jamaica

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Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.078

Pages:

458–62

Synopsis:

The prevalence of personality disorder assessed by the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) and the consultant Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition-text revision (DSM IV-TR) instruments in Jamaica is comparable to the prevalence rate of studies in other countries in a similar population.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To determine the prevalence of personality disorders in patients admitted to the psychiatric wards of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).

Received:

08 Mar, 2013

Accepted:

25 Mar, 2013

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Keywords:

Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI)

DSM IV-TR

Jamaican psychiatric population

Jamaican substance abuse population

Journal Authors:

G Walcott

J Martin

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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Personality Disorder in Convicted Jamaican Murderers

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DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.041

Pages:

453–7

Synopsis:

Examination and analysis of primary data from the psychosocial case study interviews of 36 convicted murderers from the Jamaican Government Barnett Commission of Enquiry in 1976 using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition-text revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria revealed antisocial personality disorder in two-thirds of the convicted murderers and suggest that antisocial personality disorder represents an aetiological precursor of homicidal violence and is a major public health problem in onntemporary Jamaica.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the aetiology and historical prevalance of personality disorder in violent homicidal men in Jamaica.

Received:

25 Feb, 2013

Accepted:

02 Apr, 2013

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Journal Sections:

Antisocial personality disorder

Keywords:

convicted murderers

Jamaica public health

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Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

G Walcott

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Prevalence and Correlates of Personality Disorder in the Jamaican Population

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DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.067

Pages:

443–7

Synopsis:

A demographic questionnaire and the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) were administered to a representative population sample consisting of 1506 Jamaicans, ages 18–64 years. Two-fifths of the population scored above the scale’s cut-point indicating a diagnosis of personality disorder with the level of severity ranging from mild to severe. This suggests a high risk of behavioural dysfunction in the Jamaican population, with significant implications in light of the country’s high rate of crime and violence.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To identify the prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in a representative sample of the Jamaican population using the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI).

Received:

05 Mar, 2013

Accepted:

25 Mar, 2013

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Media Representation of Personality Disorder in Jamaica – Public Scholarship as a Catalyst of Health Promotion

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Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.160

Pages:

448–52

Synopsis:

A two-year trawl of contemporary Jamaican news media articles linking the medical diagnosis of personality disorder to published public scholarship articles on the epidemiology of that condition was conducted. Results suggest that public scholarship reports of this condition prompted a popular media response which in turn generated a health promotion outcome linking contemporary social events to the contemporary medical search on personality disorder.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To ascertain whether the public scholarship of the epidemiology of personality disorder (PD) in Jamaica prompted a health promotion outcome.

Received:

22 May, 2013

Accepted:

01 Jun, 2013

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Journal Authors:

HA Robertson-Hickling

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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The Treatment of Personality Disorder in Jamaica with Psychohistoriographic Brief Psychotherapy

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Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.093

Pages:

431–6

Synopsis:

One hundred patients seen in the author’s private practice from 1974–2010 with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis of personality disorder were treated with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP). Patients with personality disorders showed clinical improvement one year after being treated with PBP.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To assess the clinical outcome of patients with personality disorder, receiving treatment with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP).

Received:

10 Apr, 2013

Accepted:

22 Dec, 2013

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Keywords:

Jamaica

psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy

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Correlates of Psychosexual Issues in the Jamaican Population

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DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.138

Pages:

417–22

Synopsis:

The correlates of psychosexual phenomenology in the Jamaican population using the seven questions of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) are presented. More than one-fifth of the sample reported some degree of heterosexual and homosexual dysfunction. Significant levels of multiple sexual partnerships and feelings of infidelity in a swathe of Jamaican people reveal underlying psychosexual anxiety and guilt, poor impulse control and difficulties with partner intimacy.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To examine the relationship between the psychopathological correlates of psychosexual phenomena in post-colonial Jamaica.

Received:

07 May, 2013

Accepted:

10 May, 2013

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Journal Sections:

Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI)

Keywords:

conflict

Jamaican population

psychosexual dysfunction

Journal Authors:

G Walcott

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

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The Psychological Correlates of Dependency in the Jamaican Population

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DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.110

Pages:

411–6

Synopsis:

The correlates of the phenomenology of dependency in the Jamaican population using the 17 questions of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) are reported. One-quarter of the sample population studied reported problems with physiological and psychological dependency behaviour suggesting that they are still locked in a struggle for psychological independence.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the prevalence of psychological dependency in the Jamaican society in order to examine the relationship between the psychological correlates of dependency and socio-political dependency in this post-colonial country.

Received:

12 Apr, 2013

Accepted:

22 Apr, 2013

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