OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the psychopathological correlates of psychosexual phenomena in post-colonial Jamaica. METHODS: A total of 1506 adult individuals were sampled from 2150 households using a stratified sampling method and assessed with the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory...
This article discusses issues relevant to the examination of personality and personality disorder in contexts, such as the Caribbean, which are under-represented in this scholarship. The article argues that because normal personality is the standard against which definitions of non-normality (and at the ...
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). METHOD: A four-stage stratified random sampling method was used to obtain a representative population sample consisti...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of personality disorders in patients admitted to the psychiatric wards of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). METHOD: Patients (n = 100) sequentially admitted to the psychiatric wards of the UHWI were assessed for personality disorder using the gold s...
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). METHOD: Patients (n = 100) sequentially admitted to the general medical wards of the UHWI were assessed for the diagnosis of personality ...
OBJECTIVE: To describe the creation and validation of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) screening questionnaire. METHOD: Using the phenomenological triad of power management, dependency and psychosexual issues, drafts of the JPDI were piloted on patients from psychiatric and medical wards...
La capacitación en psicoterapia Gestalt pretende lograr en los entrenados una mayor capacidad para vivir en el presente, para orientarse y guiarse por principios internos, desarrollar una actitud responsable, flexible y creativa en la relación con la realidad y los otros seres humanos, y para desarroll...
Aplicando una parte de la Lista de Registro de Síntomas-90 (Symptom Checklist-90 o SCL-90) de DEROGATIS y col. a 20 pacientes con depresión, se encontraron niveles promedios uniformemente elevados no sólo de depresión sino también de ansiedad, somatización (sintomatología somática de la ansiedad)...