June 13, 2024Open Access

If personality disorder is just maladaptive traits, there is no such thing as personality disorder.

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The diagnosis of personality disorder (PD) is undergoing a transition from a categorical model that distinguishes types from one another to a model that characterizes patients with dimensional profiles. The DSM-5 (D

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Christopher J. Hopwood (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e64d72b6db6435875de3a6 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000922

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