Personality Assessment in the DSM-5

<p>The DSM-5 promises to be a major reformulation of psychopathology and no section is likely to change diagnostic practice more than that of personality pathology. Unlike the DSM-IV the DSM-5 personality disorders will be conceptualized as involving core deficits in interpersonal and self-functioning and will utilize a hybrid assessment model involving both pathological trait dimensions and a limited set of personality disorder types. These changes are based on empirical and theoretical work conducted during the era of DSM-III/IV but nevertheless there is significant disagreement among personality assessors regarding the DSM-5 proposal. In this volume several members of the DSM-5 work group offer rationales for the proposal and offer empirical evidence regarding suggested changes and several personality assessment researchers critique the proposal and offer alternative conceptualizations.</p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of the <em>Journal of Personality Assessment. </em></p>