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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published online on April 11, 2005
Alcohol and Alcoholism, doi:10.1093/alcalc/agh158
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved
Received October 20, 2004
Revised March 11, 2005
Accepted March 13, 2005

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ALCOHOLISM AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

ENRIQUE ECHEBURÚA 1*, RICARDO BRAVO DE MEDINA 2, and JAVIER AIZPIRI 2

1 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del País Vasco, Avda. de Tolosa, 70, 20018 San Sebastián, España
2 Medicina Psico-Orgánica, S. L. Bilbao España

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
ENRIQUE ECHEBURÚA, E-mail: eecheburua{at}ss.ehu.es


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Aims: To define the most frequent personality disorders related to alcohol dependence. Methods: Using the International Personality Disorder Examination and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II for personality disorders, 30 consecutively recruited alcohol-dependent patients attending an outpatient clinic were compared with 30 consecutively recruited psychiatric patients with non-addictive disorders and 31 subjects from the general population chosen to match the patient samples for age, gender and socio-economic level. Results: Forty percent of the alcohol-dependent patients and 16.6% of the general clinical sample (vs 6.4% of the normative sample) showed at least one personality disorder. Dependent personality disorders were most prevalent (13.3%), followed by paranoid and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders (10% each).


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