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Title Dimensional models of personality disorders : refining the research agenda for DSM-V / edited by Thomas A. Widiger [and others]
Edition First edition
Published Washington, D.C. : American Psychiatric Association, [2006]
©2006
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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 281 pages)
Contents CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; DISCLOSURE STATEMENT; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY DISORDER: Finding a Common Ground; 2 COMMENTARY ON WIDIGER AND SIMONSEN: Toward a Consensus Personality Trait Structure; 3 COMMENTARY ON WIDIGER AND SIMONSEN: Working Out a Dimensional Framework; 4 COMMENTARY ON WIDIGER AND SIMONSEN: From ICD-10 and DSM-IV to ICD-11 and DSM-V; 5 BEHAVIORAL AND MOLECULAR GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO A DIMENSIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF PERSONALITY DISORDER
6 COMMENTARY ON LIVESLEY: Genetic Contributions to a Dimensional Classification: Problems and Pitfalls7 NEUROBIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY: A Review of Three Models; 8 COMMENTARY ON PARIS: Personality as a Dynamic Psychobiological System; 9 COMMENTARY ON PARIS: The Problem of Severity in Personality Disorder Classification; 10 TEMPERAMENT AND PERSONALITY AS BROAD-SPECTRUM ANTECEDENTS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE; 11 COMMENTARY ON MERVIELDE ET AL.: Toward a Develop
Summary Are personality disorders discrete conditions or rather distinctions along dimensions of general personality functioning? This collection of papers renews long-standing proposals for incorporating a dimensional model of personality disorder within the next DSM. It describes alternative models, addresses questions regarding their clinical application and utility, and suggests that future research seek to integrate such models within a common hierarchical structure. Drawn from a planning conference for DSM-V, Dimensional Models of Personality Disorders opens with a presentation of 18 proposals fo
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Subject Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Personality disorders -- Classification.
Personality Disorders -- classification.
Models, Psychological.
Genre/Form Classification.
Form Electronic book
Author Widiger, Thomas A.
ISBN 128096376X
1585626732 (electronic bk.)
9781280963766
9781585626731 (electronic bk.)
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(paperback; alk. paper)