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7a - Personality Disorders are Disorders of Personality: Commentary on the Five-Factor Model of Personality Disorders

from Part II - Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Carl W. Lejuez
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Kim L. Gratz
Affiliation:
University of Toledo, Ohio
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This comment concurs with Miller and Widiger’s review on the five-factor model’s potential to describe personality pathology. Remaining challenges are the definition of the domain that one wants to cover and how to separate personality description from dysfunction.

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Print publication year: 2020

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