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...
OBJECTIVE: Of particular public health concern to the Jamaican authorities is the consistently high numbers of new HIV infections among adolescents and young adults. The thrust in HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns has largely been toward an increase in knowledge and attitudes as opposed to personality variab...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical outcome of patients with personality disorder, receiving treatment with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP). METHOD: Patients seen in the author's private practice from 1974 - 2010 with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, tex...
Research suggests that there is a high level of stigma surrounding mental illness in the English-speaking Caribbean, limited knowledge about aetiology and scepticism about the effectiveness of treatment. Further, in spite of experiencing symptoms of distress, a growing body of literature has suggested th...
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 ascertain whether the public scholarship of the epidemiology of personality disorder (PD) in Jamaica prompted a health promotion outcome. METHODS: A January 2011 to December 2012 trawl of news media articles linking 'PD' to published public scholarship articles on the epidemiology of PD rec...
OBJECTIVE: To establish the aetiology and historical prevalance of personality disorder in violent homicidal men in Jamaica. METHODS: Examination and analysis of primary data from the psychosocial case study interviews of 36 convicted murderers from the Jamaican Government Barnett Commission of Enquiry i...
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...
Manual Diagnóstico y Estadístico de los Trastornos Mentales,
Jamaica/epidemiología,
Trastornos de la Personalidad/diagnóstico,
Trastornos de la Personalidad/psicología,
Trastornos de la Personalidad/epidemiología,
Inventario de Personalidad,
Prevalencia,
Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica,
Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/epidemiología,
Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/complicaciones,
Factores de Edad
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 use historiography in the analysis of the fictional writings of a Jamaican novelist to identify aspects of psychopathology of Jamaican people. METHOD: Each of 12 stories of "The World is a High Hill" by novelist Erna Brodber was assigned an explanatory title and a 'psychic centrality'. A na...
