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Defining disordered personality functioning.

Gordon Parker1, Lindsay Both, Amanda Olley

  • 1Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia. g.parker@unsw.edu.au

Journal of Personality Disorders
|March 6, 2003
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Current personality disorder (PD) definitions mix personality traits and disordered functioning, causing diagnostic issues. Focusing solely on disordered functioning may offer a more precise and efficient diagnostic approach for PDs.

Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Mental Health

Background:

  • Current diagnostic systems for personality disorders (PDs) integrate personality style and disordered functioning.
  • This integration leads to artificial comorbidity and reduced diagnostic precision among formally distinct PDs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a revised approach for defining personality disorders.
  • To advocate for measuring disordered functioning as a primary diagnostic criterion for PDs.

Main Methods:

  • Review of candidate constructs for defining disordered personality functioning.
  • Consideration of refinement strategies for these constructs in future research.

Main Results:

  • Current definitions conflate distinct diagnostic elements, impacting precision.

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  • Disordered functioning alone is proposed as a more efficient and precise first-level diagnostic measure.

    • Conclusions:

    • Revising PD definitions to focus on disordered functioning could enhance diagnostic accuracy.
    • Further research is needed to refine and operationalize measures of disordered functioning for clinical application.