Personality Disorders

Peter Tyrer, Gillian A. Mc Cabe, Youl Ri Kim, Thomas A. Widiger

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Abstract

Everybody has a personality, or a characteristic manner of thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating to others. When personality traits are maladaptive and result in significant social and/or occupational impairment or subjective distress they constitute a personality disorder. The classification of personality disorders within authoritative diagnostic manuals though is undergoing significant shift, from the categorical syndromes of DSM-IV and ICD-10 to dimensional traits within DSM-5 Section III and ICD-11. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the rationale for this shift, compare and contrast the DSM-5 Section III and ICD-11 trait models, as well as consider their assessment, etiology, outcomes, and treatment. The chapter ends with two case vignettes that illustrate the descriptive capacity of the trait models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTasman’s psychiatry, Fifth Edition
Pages3171-3205
Number of pages35
ISBN (Electronic)9783030513665
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

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Keywords

  • Alternative model of personality disorder
  • Anankastia
  • Antagonism
  • Classification
  • Detachment
  • Diagnosis
  • Disinhibition
  • Dissocial
  • Level of personality functioning; icd-11
  • Negative affectivity
  • Personality disorder
  • Personality trait
  • Psychoticism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine
  • General Psychology
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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