title: [Personality disorders in childhood. Classifications and clinical aspects of border-line personalities and narcissism].
abstract: The diagnosis of personality disorders is particularly difficult in childhood and requires prolonged psychiatric evaluation. Authors focus discussion upon the diagnosis of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders in children. Although Misès recently favours the term child borderline pathologies covering all personality disorders other than psychosis or neurosis, the american school of psychiatry tends to separate different personality disorders according to DSM-IV diagnosis propositions. The results of rare prospective studies suggest a pathological continuum which remains within the sphere of personality disorders. Further research is in fact necessary to determine the specific evolutive profiles of each personality disorder.
authors.affiliation: Centre médico-psychologique de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Clinique de Rozès, Saint-Lizier.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bonnet
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chabrol
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moron
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism