Psychiatric disorders can affect our ability to successfully and enjoyably interact with others.
Conversely, having difficulties in social relations is known to increase the risk of developing …

Personality disorders are defined in the current psychiatric diagnostic system as pervasive,
inflexible, and stable patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and interacting with others …

Consensus is emerging that the constellation of dark personalities should include the
sadistic personality. To build a four-factor measure, we modified and extended the Short …

A new developmental model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment is
advanced based on evolutionary considerations concerning the role of attachment …

Clinical and basic personality psychologists interact less than they should, given their similar
interests. In clinical personality psychology, available evidence supports a transition from the …

Personality disorders (PDs) are among the most common and severe classes of
psychopathology. From a clinical perspective, it is challenging to help individuals with …

Theorists have long argued that personality disorder (PD) is best understood in terms of
general impairments shared across the disorders as well as more specific instantiations of …

Abstract The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM–5)
Section III Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD; APA, 2013) represents an …

In this study we examined the structure, reliability, and validity of the Levels of Personality
Functioning Scale–Self Report (LPFS–SR) in 3 large community samples. The LPFS–SR is …

BackgroundPsychiatric co-morbidity is extensive in both psychiatric settings and the general
population. Such co-morbidity challenges whether DSM-based mental disorders serve to …