Qualitative and quantitative distinctions in personality disorder.
Qualitative and quantitative distinctions in personality disorder.
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人格障碍的定性和定量区别。
DOI:
10.1080/00223891.2011.577477
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Wright,AidanGC
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作者:
Wright,AidanGC
The categorical–dimensional debate has catalyzed a wealth of empirical advances in the study of personality pathology. However, this debate is merely one articulation of a broader conceptual question regarding whether to define and describe psychopathology as a quantitatively extreme expression of normal functioning or as qualitatively distinct in its process. In this article I argue that dynamic models of personality (eg, object relations, cognitive-affective processing system) offer the conceptual scaffolding to reconcile these seemingly incompatible approaches to characterizing the relationship between normal and pathological personality. I propose that advances in personality assessment that sample behavior and experiences intensively provide the empirical techniques, whereas interpersonal theory offers an integrative theoretical framework, for accomplishing this goal.It is important to understand the structure of psychopathology because this structure clarifies which constructs are meaningful for psychopathologists to study, how to classify and assess individuals with psychiatric difficulties, and how to intervene clinically. The “categorical-dimensional debate” has been historically central to the developing understanding of this structure (Kendell, 1975; Widiger & Trull, 2007). This debate has again taken on heightened significance as the publication of the Diagnostic and