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  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Mental Health Classification

Background:

  • Personality disorders are transitioning to dimensional classification models.
  • The Alternative Model of Personality (AMPD) in DSM-5 and ICD-11 exemplify this shift.
  • This review examines limitations and challenges within these new models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critically evaluate the limitations of the DSM-5 AMPD trait model and Level of Personality Functioning (LPF).
  • To identify challenges associated with the ICD-11 personality disorder classification.
  • To propose recommendations for improving dimensional personality disorder models.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on DSM-5 AMPD and ICD-11.
  • Analysis of reported limitations including trait coverage, complexity, and diagnostic criteria.
  • Synthesis of research questioning the core constructs of personality disorder assessment.

Main Results:

  • DSM-5 AMPD faces issues with trait placement, coverage, complexity, and lack of cutoff points.
  • The LPF in DSM-5 is questioned regarding its definition of personality disorder core, uniqueness, and distinction from traits.
  • ICD-11 lacks lower-order facet scales and requires only severity level.

Conclusions:

  • Depressivity should align with negative affectivity, and suspicion with antagonism.
  • Maladaptive traits across all five domains and distress/impairment cutoff points are recommended.
  • ICD-11 should mandate trait assessment and include facet scales for comprehensive evaluation.