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13b - Examining Cluster C Personality Pathology Using an Interpersonal Lens: Commentary on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance

from Part III - Individual Disorders and Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

By
Nicole M. Cain
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

Sanislow and Hector (this volume) provided a comprehensive review of the Cluster C personality disorders (PDs) with an emphasis on articulating anxious-fearful pathology and avoidance behavior. The authors provided historical context for the Cluster C PDs within the DSM and reviewed relevant research findings with a particular focus on how Cluster C pathology can be understood within NIMH RDoC domains. There is much to appreciate in their chapter and this commentary offers points intended to augment their review of Cluster C pathology. It is suggested that interpersonal theory provides a useful framework for understanding personality pathology and a review of relevant research investigating interpersonal functioning in Cluster C PDs is provided.

Keywords

interpersonal theoryinterpersonal circumplexinterpersonal signaturepathoplasticityavoidant personality disorderobsessive-compulsive personality disorderdependent personality disorder
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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders , pp. 321 - 324
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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