Am J Psychiatry 1986; 143:216-218
Copyright © 1986 by American Psychiatric Association
Masochistic personality: an empirical study
F Kass, RA MacKinnon and RL Spitzer
The authors collected therapists' ratings of 10 masochistic personality
traits in 59 patients who were in psychotherapy. The traits were found to
be common and to have good internal consistency. These data were presented
to the Advisory Committee on Personality Disorders of the Work Group to
Revise DSM-III to facilitate discussion of the possible inclusion of
masochistic personality in the revised version of DSM-III.
