During inpatient hospitalizations, do you inform patients you are diagnosing them with a personality disorder?

It would be a bit presumptuous to diagnose a personality disorder based on a brief hospital stay. I generally try to avoid labeling people as much as possible. I usually discuss their presentation's symptoms and how they affect them and their well-being. Whenever possible, I discuss their experience...

I find this to be an important and complicated question.

I think it is imperative that psychiatrists provide their patient's with their diagnosis and prognosis. Insight into their illness is very important and we cannot ask individuals to challenge this insight if they do not know their diagnosis. T...