Sebastian Simonsen, Ingeborg Ullveit-Moe Eikenaes, Bo Bach, Elfrida Kvarstein, Matthias Gondan, Stine Bjerrum Møller, Theresa Wilberg
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) is considered a mild to moderate personality disorder. However, few studies have focused on the heterogeneity of AvPD in terms of symptoms and severity. In the current study we set out to replicate and extend earlier findings showing that there is variation among patients with AvPD in terms of alexithymia and, further, that this variation is especially associated with specific facets of personality functioning and is not explained by measures of depression, symptom severity, or co-occurring personality disorder traits...
November 4, 2020: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry