Editorial for personality disorders: Theory, research, and treatment.

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Widiger
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Theory Research

The Current State of Personality Disorders Through the Lens of PDTRT

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Carl W. Lejuez ◽  
Alexis Matusiewicz ◽  
Nadia Bounoua ◽  
James Soldinger
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Current State ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Theory Research

This chapter examines recent trends in personality disorder research as they appear in one of the top personality disorder journals—Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment (PDTRT). The chapter provides an overview of the history of PDTRT, as well as describes the types of submissions and manuscripts published in the journal over the last 5 years. It also reports on research trends over that time period, noting increasing interest in the alternative model for personality disorders, the surfeit of research in borderline personality disorder and psychopathy, the increasing use of dimensional versus categorical approaches, the use of nonclinical samples, and the extension of personality disorder traits to younger populations.

scholarly journals Sociocultural Context and the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder: Comment on Widiger & Hines

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Anthony Rodriguez-Seijas
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Psychological Stressors ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Theory Research

Widiger and Hines provide a brief overview of the development of the Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD) housed within Section 3 of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). They highlight eight issues and controversies related to the AMPD in need of resolution for improvement of both the AMPD model itself as well as the field of personality disorders more broadly. In this brief commentary, I add a ninth issue in need of attention both with respect to the AMPD but also within the field of personality disorders more broadly: 9) How is sociocultural context to be accommodated in AMPD—and more generally personality disorder—theory, research, and treatment? The historical intra-individual, deficit-based models for conceptualizing personality disorders linger in current personality disorder discourse. However, failure to appropriately consider sociocultural context that systematically predisposes wide swaths of the population to unequal access to resources and exposure to psychological stressors, which can impact the appearance of personality pathology, serves to stigmatize minoritized individuals. The personality disorder field, and the AMPD discourse, must appropriately contend with sociocultural context in its models otherwise it risks developing models with limited generalizability and which hold potential to adversely affect sexual and gender minoritized populations, among others.

Personality Disorders as Emergent Interpersonal Syndromes: Psychopathic Personality as a Case Example

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott O. Lilienfeld ◽  
Ashley L. Watts ◽  
Brett Murphy ◽  
Thomas H. Costello ◽  
Shauna M. Bowes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Social Impairment ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Statistical Interactions ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Preliminary Support

Personality disorders have long been bedeviled by a host of conceptual and methodological quandaries. Starting from the assumption that personality disorders are inherently interpersonal conditions that reflect folk concepts of social impairment, the authors contend that a subset of personality disorders, rather than traditional syndromes, are emergent interpersonal syndromes (EISs): interpersonally malignant configurations (statistical interactions) of distinct personality dimensions that may be only modestly, weakly, or even negatively correlated. Preliminary support for this perspective derives from a surprising source, namely, largely forgotten research on the intercorrelations among the subscales of select MMPI/MMPI-2 clinical scales. Using psychopathic personality as a case example, the authors offer provisional evidence for the EIS hypothesis from four lines of research and delineate its implications for personality disorder theory, research, and classification. Conceptualizing some personality disorders as EISs elucidates long-standing quandaries and controversies in the psychopathology literature and affords fruitful avenues for future investigation.

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