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The authors observed 20 patients over time for mal-adaptive personality traits during hospitalization and made longitudinal diagnoses to validate Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) assessments of personality disorders. The SCID assessments identified certain personality disorders better than others.
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Skodol et al. (1988) studied this question.
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