Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorder
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 388
Special Issue Editor
Interests: borderline personality disorder; psychological assessment; social neuroscience; event-related potentials; aggression; impulsivity; hostile attribution bias; inhibition processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) recognizes 10 personality disorders (PD) defined as enduring patterns of inner experience and behavior which deviate markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture and lead to distress or impairment. The prevalence of any PD ranges from 5 to 15% and co-occurs extensively with other mental disorders. Dysfunctional personality patterns have been the subject of extensive research, and the field has considerably evolved since the DSM-III. There is a growing consensus on the need to consider diagnosis and assessment of PD from both categorical and dimensional systems as reflected in the DSM-5. While the DSM and the International Classification of Diseases describe PD according to the medical model, the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual describes the inner subjective experience of 15 types of PDs. A comprehensive account of PD requires the integration of multiple levels of description and explanation, such as genetics, neurobiological systems, neuropsychological mechanisms, psychological mechanisms, personality construct and dispositions, and sociocultural processes. There are numerous empirically-based treatments that have been developed with a variety of theoretical frameworks, and outcome studies have shown that these approaches produce comparable results, thus indicating that PD is indeed treatable. More effort is being put into the development of shorter, less expensive, and less specialized treatments and integrated modular treatments. This Special Issue aims at providing an overview of the complexity and the scope of the field of diagnosis and treatment of PD. Submissions of original studies as well as review articles and meta-analyses are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Jean Gagnon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- personality disorders
- assessment
- diagnosis
- treatment
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