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Abrams, Kelly Yost, et. al. (2004). Trait and state aspects of harm avoidance and its implication for treatment in major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and depressive personality disorder. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 58, 240-248.

Achenbach, Thomas M. (2009). Some Needed Changes in DSM-V: But What About Children? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 61(1), 50-53.

Adams, Philippe; Abela, John R. Z. & Hankin, Benjamin L. (2007). Factorial Categorization of Depression-Related Constructs in Early Adolescents. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 21(2), 123-139. Agronin, Marc E. M.D. DEPRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN LATE LIFE: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF 11 CASES.(1999) American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 7(4) Supplement:37, Fall 1999.

Akiskal, Hagop S. (2005) Preface, in Depression and Personality: Conceptual and Clinical Challenges, ed. Rosenbluth, Michael; Kennedy, Sydney H. and Bagby, R. Michael. American Psychiatric Publishing: Arlington, VA.

Belsky, Jay and Phelps, Michael (2009). Beyond Diathesis Stress: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences. Psychological Bulletin, 135(6), 885-908.

American Psychiatric Association (2008). Website FAQ: www.psych.org/MainMenu/Research/DSMIV/FAQs/WhatdoesitmeanifadiagnosisisnotincludedintheDSM.aspx

American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision. Washington, DC.

American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition. Washington, DC.

Andrews, G; Anderson, T.M., Slate, T. & Sunderland, M. (2008) Classification of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders: Problems and Solutions. Depression and Anxiety 25:274-281.

Andrews, Gavin; et. a;. (2007) Dimensionality and the category of major depressive episode. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 16(S1): S41-S51.

Bagby, R. Michael; Quilty, Lena C.; Ryder, Andrew G (printed as Ryder, Andrew C.). (2008). Personality and Depression. La Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie, 53(1), 14-25.

Bagby, R. Michael, et. al. (2004). Depressive Personality Disorder: Rates of Comorbidity with Personality Disorders and Relations to the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Journal of Personality Disorders 18(6), 542-554.

Bagby, R. Michael & Ryder, Andrew G. (1999). Diagnostic Discriminability of Dysthymia and Depressive Personality Disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 10:41-49.

Clark, Lee Anna (2007). Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder: Perennial Issues and an Emerging Reconceptualization. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, pp227-257.

Costa, P. & McCrae, R. (1992) The NEO PI-R Professional Manual. Odessa, FL: PAR.

Costa, Paul T. & Widiger, Thomas A. (2002). Personality Disorders and The Five-Factor Model, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Dunner, David L. (2005). Dysthymia and double depression. International Review of Psychiatry, 17(1):3-8.

Fawcett, Jan (2008). The role of comorbidity in severity and outcome. Psychiatric Annals, 38(11) 702.

Finnerty, Todd (2009 a). Depressive Personality Disorder: Understanding Current Trends in Research and Practice; Columbus, OH: WorldWideMentalHealth.com ©Todd Finnerty

Finnerty, Todd (2009 b) Depressive personality disorder can be conceptualized dimensionally for DSM-V. The National Psychologist, Vol. 18 (4).

Fuller, S. (1992). Being there with Thomas Kuhn: A parable for postmodern times, History & Theory, 31(3), 241-276.

Giordano, Caterina; Wood, Joanne V. & Michela, John L. (2000) Depressive Personality Styles, Dysphoria, and Social Comparisons in Everyday Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(3), 438-451.

Grossardt, Brandon R.; Bower, James H.; Geda, Yonas E.; Colligan, Robert C.; Rocca, Walter A. (2009). Pessimistic, Anxious, and Depressive Personality Traits Predict All-Cause Mortality: The Mayo Clinic Cohort Study of Personality and Aging. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71: published online ahead of print 3/25/09.

Gunderson, J. G., et. al. (1994) The diagnostic interview for depressive personality. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 1300-1304.

Hankin, Benjamin L. (2008). Stability of Cognitive Vulnerabilities to Depression: A Short-Term Prospective Multiwave Study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(2), 324-333.

Hankin, Benjamin L., et. al. (2007). Are Neuroticism, Cognitive Vulnerabilities and Self-Esteem overlapping or Distinct Risks for Depression? Evidence from Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 26(1), 29-63.

Harkness, Kate. L.; Bagby, R. Michael; Joffe, Russell T. & Levitt, Anthony (2002). Major Depression, Chronic Minor Depression, and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. European Journal of Personality, 16:271-281.

Hartlage, Shirley, Arduino, Kelly and Alloy, Lauren (1998). Depressive Personality Disorder Characteristics: State Dependent Concomitants of Depressive Disorder and Traits Independent of Current Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107(2), 349-354.

Hartlage, S. , L. B. Alloy, J. Fawcett, K. Arduino Depressive personality characteristics and clinical depression Biological Psychiatry, Volume 39, Issue 7, 1 April 1996, Page 524

Hirsch, Jameson K.; Wolford, Karen; LaLonde, Steven M., Brunk, Lisa and Parker-Morris, Amanda (2009). Optimistic Explanatory Style as a Moderator of the Association Between Negative Life Events and Suicide Ideation. Crisis, 30(1):48-53. Hirschfeld, Robert M. A.; Holzer, Charles E. Depressive personality disorder: Clinical implications. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Vol 55(4, Suppl), Apr 1994, 10-17.

Hirschfeld, Robert (1991). Depressive Illness: Diagnostic Issues. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 55(2), 144-155.

Huprich, Steven K. (2009). What Should Become of Depressive Personality Disorder in DSM-V? Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 17:1,41-59.

Huprich, Steven K., et. al. (2008). Depressive Personality Disorder, Dysthymia, and Their Relationship to Perfectionism. Depression and Anxiety, 25:207-217.

Huprich, Steven Commentary on Sprock and Fredendall's (2008), “Comparison of Prototypic Cases of Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymic Disorder” Journal of Clinical Psychology; Dec2008, Vol. 64 Issue 12, p1318-1322,

Huprich, S.K. (2007) The future of depressive personality disorder in the diagnostic manuals European Psychiatry Volume 22, Supplement 1, March 2007, Pages S174-S175

Huprich, Steven K.;et. al. (2007) Parental representations, object relations and their relationship to Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymia.Personality & Individual Differences, Dec2007, Vol. 43 Issue 8, p2171-2181, 11p;

Huprich, Steven K. & Bornstein, Robert F. (2007). An Overview of Issues Related to Categorical and Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder Assessment, Journal of Personality Assessment, 89(1), 3-15.

Huprich, Steven K.; Zimmerman, Mark; Chelminski, Iwona (2006) Disentangling depressive personality disorder from avoidant, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. Comprehensive Psychiatry. Vol 47(4), Jul-Aug 2006, 298-306.

Huprich, Steven K. (2006). Rorschach Assessment of Depressive Personality Disorder, in Rorschach Assessment of the Personality Disorders, (ed.) Huprich, Steven K. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Huprich, Steven K. (2005). Differentiating Avoidant and Depressive Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19(6), 659-673.

Huprich, Steven K; Porcerelli, John, et. Al. (2005) Functional Health Status and its relationship to Depressive Personality Disorder, Dysthymia, and Major Depression: Prelimiary Findings. Depression and Anxiety 22:168-176

Huprich, Steven K. (2004). Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Three Measures of Depressive Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Assessment, 82(3), 321-328.

Huprich, Steven K. & Frisch, Michael B. (2004). The Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory and Its Relationship to Quality of Life, Hopefulness and Optimism. Journal of Personality Assessment, 83(1), 22-28.

Huprich, Steven K. (2003). Depressive Personality Disorder and its Relationship to Depressed Mood, Interpersonal Loss, Negative Parental Perceptions, and Perfectionism. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191(2), 73-79.

Huprich, Steven K. (2003). Evaluating Facet-Level Predictions and Construct Validity of Depressive Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 17(3), 219-232.

Huprich, Steven K.; Sanford, Keith & Smith, Marinell (2002). Psychometric evaluation of the Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory. Journal of Personality Disorders, 16(3), 255-269.

Huprich, Steven K. (2001) The Overlap of Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymia, Reconsidered, Harvard Review of Psychiatry 9:158-168

Huprich, Steven K. Brief communications: Object loss and object relations in depressive personality analogues. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. Vol 65(4), Nov 2001, 549-559."

Huprich, Steven K. (2000) Describing Depressive Personality Analogues and Dysthymics on the NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(12), 1521-1534.

Huprich, Steven K. (1998) Depressive personality disorder: Theoretical issues, clinical findings, and future research questions Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 18, Issue 5, August 1998, Pages 477-500

Huprich, Steven K.; et. al. (1996) The Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory: An Initial Examination of Its Psychometric Properties. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52(2), 153-159.

Huprich, Steven K. M.A.; Fine, Mark A. Ph.D. Diagnoses Under Consideration-Self-Defeating and Depressive Personality Disorders: Current Status and Clinical Issues. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 27(4):303-322, 1997

Iacoviello, Brian M., et. al. (2006). The course of depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression: A prospective study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 93(1-3), 61-69.

Johnson, Jeffrey G.; First, Michael B.; Cohen, Patricia; Skodol, Andrew E.; Kasen, Stephanie; Brook, Judith S. (2005). Adverse Outcomes Associated with Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified in a Community Sample. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 162:1926-1932.

Klein, Daniel N. (1999) Depressive personality in the relatives of outpatients with dysthymic disorder and episodic major depressive disorder and normal controls. Journal of Affective Disorders. Vol 55(1), Sep 1999, 19-27.

Klein, Daniel N, & Shih, Josephine H. (1998) Depressive Personality: Associations With DSM-III-R Mood and Personality Disorders and Negative and Positive Affectivity, 30-Month Stability, and Prediction of Course of Axis I Depressive Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107(2), 319-327.

Kuhn, T. (1996/1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Krueger, Robert F. (2005). Continuity of Axes I and II: Toward a Unified Model of Personality, Personality Disorders, and Clinical Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19(3), 233-261.

Kwon, Jun Soo; et al (2000). Three-Year Follow-Up of Women With the Sole Diagnosis of Depressive Personality Disorder: Subsequent Development of Dysthymia and Major Depression. The American Journal of Psychiatry 157:1966-1972.

Laptook, Rebecca S.; Klein, Daniel N.; Dougherty, Lea R. (2006). Ten-Year Stability of Depressive Personality Disorder in Depressed Outpatients. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(5), 865-871.

Lyoo, In Kyoon; Gunderson, John G.; Phillips, Katherine A. (1998) Personality dimensions associated with depressive personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders. Vol 12(1), Spr 1998, 46-55.

Lyoo, In Kyoon; Kwon, Jun Soo; Lee, Soo Jin; Han, Moon Hee; Chang, Chang-Gok; Seo, Cheon Seok; Lee, Sang I.k; Renshaw, Perry F (2002) Decrease in genu of the corpus callosum in medication-naïve, early-onset dysthymia and depressive personality disorder. Biological Psychiatry, Dec2002, Vol. 52 Issue 12, p1134, 10p;

Markowitz JC, Skodol AE, Petkova E, Xie H, Cheng J, Hellerstein DJ, Gunderson JG, Sanislow CA, Grilo CM, McGlashan TH (2005) Longitudinal comparison of depressive personality disorder and dysthymic disorder..Comprehensive Psychiatry. 2005 Jul-Aug;46(4):239-45.

Maser, Jack D., et. al. (2009) Psychiatric Nosology Is Ready for a Paradigm Shift in DSM-V. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 16(1) 24-40.

Millon, Theodore; Davis, Roger and Millon, Carrie (1997) MCMI-III Manual, second edition. Minneapolis, MN: National Computer Systems.

Morris, Matthew C.; Harber, Judy and Ciesla, Jeffrey A. (2008). A Prospective Study of the Cognitive-Stress Model of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(4), 719-734.

McCrae, Robert R. et. al. (2005) A Step Toward DSM-V: Cataloguing Personality-Related Problems in Living. European Journal of Personality 19: 269-286.

McDermut, Wilson, et. al. (2003) The Construct Validity of Depressive Personality Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112(1) p 49-60.

O’Connor, Brian P. & Dyce, Jamie A. (1998) A Test of Models of Personality Disorder Configuration. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107(1), 3-16.

O’Donohue, W. (1993). The spell of Kuhn on psychology: An exegetical elixir, Philosophical Psychology, 6(3), 267-288.

Orstavik, Ragnhild, et. al. (2007). The Relationship Between Depressive Personality Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder: A Population-Based Twin Study. American Journal of Psychiatry 164:1866-1872.

Orstavik, Ragnhild E 1; Kendler, Kenneth S 2; Roysamb, Espen 1,3; Tambs, Kritian 1; Czajkovski, Nikolai 4; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted 4 (2007) The Relationship between Borderline, Avoidant and Depressive Personality Disorder: A Multivariate Twin Study. Behavior Genetics. 37(6):782-783, November 2007.

Ørstavik, Ragnhild Elise; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Czajkowski, Nikolai; Tambs, Kristian; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted. (2007) Genetic and environmental contributions to depressive personality disorder in a population-based sample of Norwegian Twins. Journal of Affective Disorders, Apr2007, Vol. 99 Issue 1-3, p181-189, 9p;

Pettit, Jeremy W. and Joiner, Thomas E. (2006). Stable Vulnerabilities in Chronic Depression: Interpersonal Sources, Therapeutic Solutions. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 105-118.

Phillips, Katharine, et. al. (1998). Reliability and Validity of Depressive Personality Disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 155(8) 1044-1048.

Phillips, Katharine A.; Hirschfeld, Robert M.; Shea, M. Tracie; Gunderson, John G. (1993) Depressive personality disorder: Perspectives for DSM-IV. Journal of Personality Disorders. Vol 7(1), Spr 1993, 30-42.

Rasmussen, Paul (2005). The Depressive Prototype, in Personality-Guided Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Regier, Darrel A. (2007). Dimensional approaches to psychiatric classification: refining the research agenda for DSM-V: an introduction. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 16(S1):S1-S5.

Riso, Lawrence P.; Maddux, Rachel E. and Santorelli, Noelle Turini (2007) Early Maladaptive Schemas in Chronic Depression in Cognitive Schemas and Core Beliefs in Psychological Problems: A Scientist-Practitioner Guide. Washington DC: American Psychological Association, 41-58.

Rosenbluth, Michael; Kennedy, Sidney H. and Bagby, R. Michael (2005) Depression And Personality: Conceptual And Clinical Challenges

Rottman, Benjamin M.; Ahn, Woo-kyoung; Sanislow, Charles A., Kim, Nancy S. (2009). Can Clinicians Recognize DSM-IV Personality Disorders From Five-Factor Model Descriptions of Patient Cases? American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(4), 427-433.

Rudolph, Karen D. and Klein, Daniel N. (2009) Exploring Depressive Personality Traits in Youth: Origins, correlates, and developmental consequences. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 1155-1180.

Ryder, Andrew G.; McBride, Carolina & Bagby, R. Michael (2008). The Association of Affiliation and Achievement Personality Styles with DSM-IV Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 22(2), 208-216.

Ryder, Andrew G. , Deborah R. Schuller, R. Michael Bagby (2006) Depressive personality and dysthymia: Evaluating symptom and syndrome overlap Journal of Affective Disorders April 2006 (Vol. 91, Issue 2, Pages 217-227)

Ryder, Andrew G.; Bagby, R. Michael & Schuller, Deborah R. (2002) The Overlap of Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymia: A Categorical Problem with a Dimensional Solution. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 10(6), 337-352.

Ryder,Andrew. G., et. al. (2001). Chronic Low-Grade Depression in a Nonclinical Sample: Depressive Personality or Dysthymia? Journal of Personality Disorders, 15(1),84-93.

Ryder, Andrew G.; Bagby, R. Michael; Marshall, Margarita B.; Costa Jr., Paul T. Rosenbluth, Michael (Ed); Kennedy, Sidney H. (Ed); Bagby, R. Michael (Ed). (2005).The depressive personality: Psychopathology, assessment, and treatment. Depression and personality: Conceptual and clinical challenges. (pp. 65-94). Arlington, VA, US: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. xxvi, 312 pp.

Sass, H. & Jünemann, T. (2003). Affective disorders, personality and personality disorders. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 108 (suppl. 418): 34-40.

Shahar, Golan; et. al. (2003). Role of Perfectionism and Personality Disorder Features in Response to Brief Treatment for Depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 71(3), 629-633.

Shahar, Golan & Gilboa-Schectman, Eva (2007). Depressive personality styles and social anxiety in young adults. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 21(4), 275-284.

Siegle, Greg J.; Moore, Patricia M. & Thase, Michael E. (2004). Rumination: One Construct, Many Features in Healthy Individuals, Depressed Individuals, and Individuals With Lupus. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 28(5), 645-668.

Silverstein, Marshall L. Depressive Personality Disorder. [Chapter] Silverstein, Marshall L. (2007). Disorders of the self: A personality-guided approach. (pp. 205-231). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. ix, 315 pp.

Skodol, Andrew E. & Bender, Donna S. (2009). The Future of Personality Disorders in DSM-V? American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(4), 388-391.

Skodol, Andrew E; et. al. (1999). Co-occurrence of Mood and Personality Disorders: A Report from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS). Depression and Anxiety, 10:175-182.

Skodol, Andrew E; et. al. (2005). Dimensional Representations of DSM-IV Personality Disorders: Relationships to Functional Impairment. American Journal of Psychiatry; Oct2005, 162 10 p1919-1925.

Sprock, June and Fredendall, Laura (2008). Comparison of Prototypic Cases of Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymic Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64(12), 1293-1317.

Vachon, David D.; Sellbom, Martin; Ryder, Andrew G.; Miller, Joshua D.; and Bagby, R. Michael (2009). A Five-Factor Model Description of Depressive Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 23(5), 447-465.

Vaslamatzis, Grigoris (2002) On the psychoanalytic treatment of the depressive personality. International Forum of Psychoanalysis. Vol 11(1), Feb 2002, 61-66.

Widiger, Thomas A. & Samuel, Douglas B. (2005). Diagnostic Categories of Dimensions? A Question for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- Fifth edition. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114(4), 494-504.

Zuroff, David C. (1994) Depressive Personality Styles and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Journal of Personality Assessment, 63(3), 453-472.


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Abrams, Kelly Yost; Sook Kyeong Yune; et. Al. (2004) Trait and State Aspects of Harm Avoidance and its Implication for Treatment in Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder and Depressive Personality Disorder, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 58, 240-248

Agronin, Marc E. M.D. DEPRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER IN LATE LIFE: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF 11 CASES. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 7(4) Supplement:37, Fall 1999.

Akiskal, Hagop S. Dysthymia and the Spectrum of Chronic Depressions by (Hardcover Book - May 15, 1997)

Andrews, G.; et. al.(2008) Classification of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders: Problems and Solutions. Depression and Anxiety 25:274-281.

Bagby, R. Michael and Ryder, Andrew G. (1999) Diagnostic Discriminability of Dysthymia and Depressive Personality Disorder, Depression and Anxiety 10:41-49

Bagby, R. Michael, et. al. (2004). Depressive Personality Disorder: Rates of Comorbidity with Personality Disorders and Relations to the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Journal of Personality Disorders 18(6), 542-554.

Balsis, Steve 1,2; Gleason, Marci E. J. 1; Woods, Carol M. 1; Oltmanns, Thomas F. 1 An Item Response Theory Analysis of DSM-IV Personality Disorder Criteria Across Younger and Older Age Groups. Psychology & Aging. 22(1):171-185, March 2007.

Barrett, Marna S.; Barber, Jacque P. (2007) Interpersonal Profiles in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 63(3), 247-266.

Bogaerts, Stefan, et. Al. (2006) Recalled Parental bonding and personality disorders in a sample of exhibitionists: A comparative study. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 17(4):636-646.

Clark, Lee Anna Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder: Perennial Issues and an Emerging Reconceptualization. Annual Review of Psychology. 58:227-257, 2007.

Clark, Lee Anna. STABILITY AND CHANGE IN PERSONALITY PATHOLOGY: REVELATIONS OF THREE LONGITUDINAL STUDIES. Journal of Personality Disorders, Oct2005, Vol. 19 Issue 5, p524-532, 9p;

Clark, Lee Anna; Irish, Stephen L. Convergence of two systems for assessing specific traits of personality disorder. Psychological Assessment, Sep96, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p294, 10p

Costa, Paul T.; Widiger, Thomas A. (2002) Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality: Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

CRAWFORD, M. J. MD Can deficits in social problem-solving in people with personality disorder be reversed? +. British Journal of Psychiatry. 190(4):283-284, April 2007.

Durbin, C Emily 1,3; Klein, Daniel N. 2 Ten-Year Stability of Personality Disorders Among Outpatients With Mood Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 115(1):75-84, February 2006.

Dunner, David L. (2005) Dysthymia and double depression. International Review of Psychiatry; 17(1):3-8.

First, Michael B. & Westen, Drew (2007) Classification for clinical practice: How to make ICD and DSM better able to serve clinicians. International Review of Psychiatry, 19(5): 473-481.

Gunderson, John G.; Phillips, Katharine A.; Triebwasser, Joseph; Hirschfeld, Robert M. A. The Diagnostic Interview for Depressive Personality. American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol 151(9), Sep 1994, 1300-1304.

Harper, Robert G. Personality disorders not otherwise specified. [Chapter] Harper, Robert G. (2004). Personality-guided therapy in behavioral medicine. Personality-guided psychology. (pp. 277-318). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. xi, 359 pp.

Hartlage, Shirley (1998) Depressive Personality Characteristics: State Dependent Concomitants of Depressive Disorder and Traits Independent of Current Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology Vol 107(2) May, 1998 p349-354.

Hartlage, S. , L. B. Alloy, J. Fawcett, K. Arduino Depressive personality characteristics and clinical depression Biological Psychiatry, Volume 39, Issue 7, 1 April 1996, Page 524

Hirschfeld, Robert M. A.; Holzer, Charles E. Depressive personality disorder: Clinical implications. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Vol 55(4, Suppl), Apr 1994, 10-17.

Hirschfeld, Robert MA (1991) Depressive Illness: Diagnostic Issues. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Spring 1991 vol55(2) 144-155

HUBAND, NICK PhD; McMURRAN, MARY PhD; EVANS, CHRIS MRCPsych; DUGGAN, CONOR FRCPsych Social problem-solving plus psychoeducation for adults with personality disorder: Pragmatic randomised controlled trial +. British Journal of Psychiatry. 190(4):307-313, April 2007.

Huprich, Steven K. (2000) Describing Depressive Personality Anologues and Dysthymics on the NEO-Personality Inventory-Revised. Journal of Clinical Psychology,56(12), 1521-1534.

Huprich, Steven K. (2001) The Overlap of Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymia, Reconsidered, Harvard Review of Psychiatry 9:158-168

Huprich, Steven K., et. al. (2002) Psychometric Evaluation of the Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory. Journal of Personality Disorders 16(3), 255-269.

Huprich, Steven K. (2003) Evaluating Facet-Level Predictions and Construct Validity of Depressive Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 17(3), 219-232.

Huprich, Steven K. (2004). Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Three Measures of Depressive Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Assessment, 82(3), 321-328.

Huprich, Steven K; Porcerelli, John, et. Al. (2005) Functional Health Status and its relationship to Depressive Personality Disorder, Dysthymia, and Major Depression: Prelimiary Findings. Depression and Anxiety 22:168-176.

Huprich, Steven K. (2005). Differentiating Avoidant and Depressive Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19(6), 659-673.

Huprich, Steven K. & Bornstein, Robert F. (2007). An Overview of Issues Related to Categorical and Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 89(1)3-15. Huprich, Steven K.(2003) Depressive Personality and its relationship to depressed mood, interpersonal loss, negative parental perceptions, and perfectionism. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol 191(2):73-79.

Huprich, Steven K; Porcerelli, John, et. Al. (2008) Depressive Personality Disorder, Dysthymia and their Relationship To Perfectionism. Depression and Anxiety, 25:207-217.

Huprich, S.K. The future of depressive personality disorder in the diagnostic manuals European Psychiatry Volume 22, Supplement 1, March 2007, Pages S174-S175 15th AEP Congress - Abstract book, 15th AEP Congress doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.01.572

Huprich, Steven Commentary on Sprock and Fredendall's (2008), “Comparison of Prototypic Cases of Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymic Disorder” Journal of Clinical Psychology; Dec2008, Vol. 64 Issue 12, p1318-1322,

Huprich, Steven K. Depressive personality disorder: Theoretical issues, clinical findings, and future research questions Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 18, Issue 5, August 1998, Pages 477-500

Huprich, Steven K. M.A.; Fine, Mark A. Ph.D. Diagnoses Under Consideration-Self-Defeating and Depressive Personality Disorders: Current Status and Clinical Issues. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 27(4):303-322, 1997

Huprich, Steven K.Brief communications: Object loss and object relations in depressive personality analogues. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. Vol 65(4), Nov 2001, 549-559."

Huprich, Steven K. Rorschach Assessment of Depressive Personality Disorder. Huprich, Steven K. (Ed). (2006). Rorschach assessment to the personality disorders. The LEA series in personality and clinical psychology. (pp. 371-393). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. xv, 479 pp.

Huprich, Steven K.; Margrett, Jennifer; Barthelemy, Kimberly J.; Fine, Mark A. The Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory: An initial examination of its psychometric properties. Journal of Clinical Psychology. Vol 52(2), Mar 1996, 153-159.

Huprich, Steven K.;et. al. Parental representations, object relations and their relationship to Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymia.Personality & Individual Differences, Dec2007, Vol. 43 Issue 8, p2171-2181, 11p;

Huprich, Steven K.; Zimmerman, Mark; Chelminski, Iwona Disentangling depressive personality disorder from avoidant, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. Comprehensive Psychiatry. Vol 47(4), Jul-Aug 2006, 298-306.

Johnson, Jeffrey G. Ph.D.; First, Michael B. M.D.; Cohen, Patricia Ph.D.; Skodol, Andrew E. M.D.; Kasen, Stephanie Ph.D.; Brook, Judith S. Ed.D. Adverse Outcomes Associated With Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified in a Community Sample. American Journal of Psychiatry. 162(10):1926-1932, October 2005.

Klein, Daniel N. Depressive personality in the relatives of outpatients with dysthymic disorder and episodic major depressive disorder and normal controls. Journal of Affective Disorders. Vol 55(1), Sep 1999, 19-27.

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