Personality psychology, which seeks to study individual differences in thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors that persist over time and place, has experienced a renaissance in the last …

Criterion A, as represented by Level of Personality Functioning (LPF), offers a means by
which to conceptualize the core impairment in self and interpersonal functioning that …

Anxiety is a mental state characterized by an intense sense of tension, worry or
apprehension, relative to something adverse that might happen in the future. Researchers …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a scientific effort to address
shortcomings of traditional mental disorder diagnoses, which suffer from arbitrary …

Abstract Purpose of Review Both the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders
(AMPD) and the chapter on personality disorders (PD) in the recent version of ICD-11 …

Background The ICD-11 classification of Personality Disorders focuses on core personality
dysfunction, while allowing the practitioner to classify three levels of severity (Mild …

Personality traits are powerful predictors of outcomes in the domains of education, work,
relationships, health, and well-being. The recognized importance of personality traits has …

The DSM–5 presents an Alternative Model for Personality Disorder (AMPD) recommending
the assessment of impairments in core personality functions as well as clinically relevant …

The paradigm of personality psychopathology is shifting from one that is purely categorical
in nature to one grounded in dimensional individual differences. Section III (Emerging …

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
includes an alternative model of personality disorders (PDs) in Section III, consisting in part …