CHAPTER ELEVEN
Personality Disorders
CASE VIGNETTES
Case 1
A 45-year-old Japanese-American man visited a university-associated mental health clinic with a chief complaint of anxiety attack. As part of an educational activity, the patient was interviewed for clinical assessment by a group of psychiatric residents of different ethnic backgrounds. The patient revealed that he was still single, lived alone, and was financially dependent on his 55-year-old brother. He had been laid off as a carpenter five years before, and had not worked since then, other than at odd jobs here and there. He felt that such unskillful work did ...
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