Journal of Psychiatry

Wanzhen Chen

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• Research Article
  Narrations of Personality Disorders in a Famous Chinese Novel of the Eighteenth Century - A Dream of Red Mansions
  Author(s): Hongying Fan, Wanzhen Chen, Chanchan Shen, Yanhua Qin, Junpeng Zhu, You Xu, Qianqian Gao and Wei WangHongying Fan, Wanzhen Chen, Chanchan Shen, Yanhua Qin, Junpeng Zhu, You Xu, Qianqian Gao and Wei Wang
  
  Background: Traditional Chinese culture, such as the paternalism, male dominance and collectivism, contribute to normal and disordered personality traits, and the influence might be traced back to an ancient epoch. As a compendium of Chinese culture, the novel, A Dream of Red Mansions (up to first 80 chapters) written in the 18th century, might be a vector of these traces. Methods: We selected and voted on the personality-descriptive terms (adjective)/phrases, and sentences/ paragraphs in the novel, and compared them with the dimensional classification criteria of Section III of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder-Version 5. Results: Some characters in the novel, Jia Baoyu, Wang Xifeng, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Xue Pan, Jia Yucun, Concubine Zhao, Jia Rui, Miaoyu, and Jia Jing, with their impairments i.. View More»
  

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