Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 357-358, 1999
© 1999 Medical Council on Alcoholism
INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITYBIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN ALCOHOLISM: THE MARKKU LINNOILA MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
Department of Psychiatry, CB#7175, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7175, USA
Received 22 December 1998; accepted 8 January 1999
Although a number of specific personality disorders, including anti-social personality, passive-dependent personality, and explosive personality, have been associated with the diagnosis of alcoholism, studies of the relationship of underlying personality and/or temperament to the nature, phenomenology, psychobiology, prognosis, and treatment of alcoholism have occurred much less frequently. However, there is a growing body of evidence that core or underlying personality and temperament are
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