Ten percent of the children in the study showed a lack of sympathy for others» feelings, an indicator of a «severe personality disturbance.» (babygaga.com)
If an alcoholic counselee suffers from a severe underlying personality disturbance, he will probably require psychiatric and other medical treatment, in addition to AA, in order to keep the addictive cycle broken. (religion-online.org)
A dedicated psychotherapist who had spent his professional life treating sick individuals observed this sobering fact: «We therapists are treating disturbed persons on a retail basis while our society is creating personality disturbances in wholesale fashion.» (religion-online.org)