This volume describes the new DSM-5 proposal for personality disorders, including chapters by DSM-5 work group members on the proposal and chapters by other personality assessment scientists critiquing the proposal and suggesting alternative conceptualizations. This...
The DSM-5 promises to be a major reformulation of psychopathology, and no section is likely to change diagnostic practice more than that of personality pathology. Unlike the DSM-IV, the DSM-5 personality disorders will be conceptualized as involving core deficits in interpersonal...