Descriptive Psychopathology: The Signs and Symptoms of ...

367 Chapter 15: Abnormal trait behaviors62 Earleywine et al. (1992); Le Joyeux and Ada (1997).63 Cloninger et al. (1988a).64 Cloninger et al. (1995); Howard et al. (1997).65 Evren et al. (2007).66 Cloninger et al. (1988b).67 Ibid.68 Camacho and Akiskal (2005); Moore et al. (2005).69 Miller (1991).70 Fletcher et al. (1996); Bolla et al. (1998).71 Gorman (1982); Gacono et al. (1995).72 Trimble (2004), pages 93–4. MAT saw a patient with Munchausen’s syndrome when anintern. On his internal medicine rotation, the 38-year-old man feigned symptoms of a heartattack and was observed tampering with laboratory specimens. The man was unceremoniouslydischarged. Six months later, MAT was on his emergency room rotation when thesame patient was rushed into the ER on a stretcher for what was said to be a possiblemyocardial infarction. Upon seeing MAT, the patient got up from the stretcher and quicklywalked out of the hospital.73 The use of tobacco was initially advertised as a health-promoting activity, and most adultsin the West smoked tobacco until recently. The association between personality traits anduse emerges only with the persistent 25% of persons in the USA who are regular users.74 Johansson et al. (2005).