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Research Advances in Externalizing Psychopathology
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment special issue on externalizing psychopathology across the lifespan.
New Data on Head-to-Head Comparisons of DSM-5 Association Section II vs. Section III
Special issue of APA's journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2024. The goal of the special issue is to address a significant gap that has been identified related to how the American Psychiatric Association decides to accept proposed revisions to diagnostic criteria.
Ten-Year Retrospective on the DSM–5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder: Seeing the Forest for the Trees [PDF]
This special section brings together four target articles on the AMPD for a retrospective.
Conversation with Joshua Miller, PhD, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Miller, editor-in-chief of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, discusses the open science initiatives that have been implemented at his journal.
Methodological and Quantitative Issues in the Study of Personality Pathology
Special issue of the APA journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2023. This special issue presents a compilation of manuscripts by leading scholars in the study of personality disorders that address a wide range of important methodological and quantitative issues.
The DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Special issue of APA journal Personality Disorders, Vol. 13, No. 2, July 2022. In this special issue, the authors begin by summarizing the main findings and recommendations from each target review and its commentaries, as well as the shorter review articles, after which they offer additional remarks in the hopes of contributing to the setting of an agenda for the next iteration of the DSM.
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
This journal publishes a wide range of cutting edge research on personality disorders and related psychopathology from a categorical and/or dimensional perspective.
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies [PDF]
This article introduces a new classification of mental illness, the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, that aims to address several major shortcomings of traditional taxonomies and provide a better framework for researchers and clinicians.
Personality and Personality Disorders in the DSM-5
Special issue of the APA journal Personality Disorders, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2011. Articles discuss proposed changes to personality and personality disorders in the DSM-5.
