The 11th revision of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of
Diseases (ICD-11) includes a fundamentally new approach to Personality Disorders (PD) …

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

The diagnosis of mental disorder initially appears relatively straightforward: Patients present
with symptoms or visible signs of illness; health professionals make diagnoses based …

We present a transdiagnostic definition of the commonly used, but poorly defined, term
emotional disorder. This definition transcends and possibly complements traditional …

There exists a general consensus that prolonged grief disorder (PGD), or some variant of
PGD, represents a distinct mental disorder worthy of diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless …

The World Health Organization is in the process of preparing the eleventh revision of the
International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11), scheduled for presentation to the World …

This article provides a review of the magnitude of mental disorders in children and
adolescents from recent community surveys across the world. Although there is substantial …

A wealth of evidence attests to the extensive current and lifetime diagnostic comorbidity of
the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders. Diagnostic reliability studies of the DSM-III-R and …

After drifting apart for 100 years, the two worlds of genetics—quantitative genetics and
molecular genetics—are finally coming together in genome-wide association (GWA) …