Revisiting the Major Mental Disorders and Updating the Nosological Schema: A Synthesis

Nicholas Pediaditakis Deptartment of Psychiatric Medicine, ECU Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA Received 23 December 2015; accepted 18 February 2016; published 24 February 2016 Copyright © 2016 by author and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Recently, conciliating findings…

Borderline Phenomena Revisited: A Synthesis

The controversially named borderline syndrome is a chronic, recurrent and mercurial mental disorder (Paris, 1994; Sandell, 1989). Diagnosed predominantly among females (about 75%) (Widiger and Weissman, 1991), borderline personality disorder (BPD) occurs among 2% of the general population, 10% of outpatient psychiatric patients and 20% of inpatient psychiatric patients (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The current…

Origins And Mechanisms in the Development of Major Mental Disorders (A Novel Approach)

Empirical evidence and previous research demonstrate shared characteristics which together play a crucial role in the development of the MMDs. These characteristics readily apparent clinically, are overlooked in their collective significance for the development of the MMDs. The characteristics and their significance are: 1. The significance of inborn propensities. (Temperament) The underlying temperamental variances in all MMDs…