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7a - Personality Disorders are Disorders of Personality: Commentary on the Five-Factor Model of Personality Disorders

from Part II - Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

By
Filip De Fruyt  and
Barbara De Clercq
Edited by
Carl W. Lejuez  and
Kim L. Gratz
Carl W. Lejuez
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Kim L. Gratz
Affiliation:
University of Toledo, Ohio
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Summary

This comment concurs with Miller and Widiger’s review on the five-factor model’s potential to describe personality pathology. Remaining challenges are the definition of the domain that one wants to cover and how to separate personality description from dysfunction.

Keywords

personality pathologyDSM-5 trait modeldimensional assessmentpersonality disordersFive-Factor Modelpsychopathology taxonomy
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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders , pp. 161 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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