These are generally the DSM-III or DSM-III-R criteria, or they may be criteria derived from the diagnostic interview for borderline patients. See Gunderson, Kolb, & Austin ( 1981).
See Abend, Porder, & Willick ( 1983); Waldinger & Gunderson ( 1987), in which one out of every five case study examples was male and no mention was made of gender issues; and Kroll ( 1988), in which seventeen women were used as case ex- amples, as against five men.
In a random sample of 2,500 patients in the Michigan public mental health system, Mowbray, Herman, & Hazel ( 1992) did a cluster analysis and found women overrepresented in the Suicidal/Aggressive and the Demoralized/Depressed clusters, whereas men were overrepresented in the clusters of Mentally Ill Substance Abuser and Psychotic.
Another proposed category, "Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder," which is not a personality disorder, can only occur in the female population. It would seem, by the DSM-III-R's definition, to be premenstrual syndrome writ large as mental ill- ness.
I refer throughout this section to chapter 3 of Ussher ( 1992) as well as to John Demos's book-length study of witchcraft in New England ( Demos, 1982). See these works also for a more complete discussion of witchcraft and its modern inter- pretations.
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