Article Treatment Utilization by Patients With Personality Disorders

treatment was compared in patients with personality disorders and patients with major depressive disorder without per-sonality disorder. Method: Semistructured interviews were used to assess diagnosis and treatment his-tory of 664 patients in four representative personality disorder groups—schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-com-pulsive—and in a comparison group of pa-tients with major depressive disorder. Results: Patients with personality dis-orders had more extensive histories of psychiatric outpatient, inpatient, and psy-chopharmacologic treatment than pa