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Personality Disorders
Theory, Research, and Treatment

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

ISSN 1949-2715
eISSN 1949-2723
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Published bimonthly, beginning in January
Impact factor 3.6
5-year impact factor 4.2
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Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment® ( PD:TRT ) publishes a wide range of cutting-edge research on personality disorders and related psychopathology from a categorical and/or dimensional perspective including laboratory and treatment outcome studies, as well as integrative conceptual manuscripts and practice reviews that bridge science and practice.

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Clinical utility of the alternative model of personality disorders: A 10th year anniversary review.

Bach, Bo; Tracy, Mikaela

Criterion A: Level of personality functioning in the alternative DSM–5 model for personality disorders.

Morey, Leslie C.; McCredie, Morgan N.; Bender, Donna S.; Skodol, Andrew E.

The trait model of the DSM–5 alternative model of personality disorder (AMPD): A structural review.

Clark, Lee Anna; Watson, David

Dropout rates from psychotherapy trials for borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis.

Iliakis, Evan Alexander; Ilagan, Gabrielle Silva; Choi-Kain, Lois Wonsun

Ten-year retrospective on the DSM–5 alternative model of personality disorder: Seeing the forest for the trees.

Sharp, Carla; Miller, Joshua D.

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Emptiness, personality dysfunction, and emotion dysregulation: An experience sampling study.

Uliaszek, Amanda A.; Magurno, Amanda; Zedan, Saleena; Fournier, Marc A.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of borderline personality disorder among men in the general population.

Huo, Yan; Dahlenburg, Sophie C.; Bartsch, Dianna R.

Avoidant personality disorder and social functioning: A longitudinal, observational study investigating predictors of change in a clinical sample.

Kvarstein, Elfrida Hartveit; Antonsen, Bjørnar Torske; Klungsøyr, Ole; Pedersen, Geir; Wilberg, Theresa

Laboratory-assessed mistrust in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analytic review.

Kurt, Yağızcan; Walker, Megan; Luyten, Patrick; Fonagy, Peter

More is more: Evidence for the incremental value of the SCID-II/SCID-5-PD specific factors over and above a general personality disorder factor.

Paap, Muirne C. S.; Heltne, Aleksander; Pedersen, Geir; Germans Selvik, Sara; Frans, Niek; Wilberg, Theresa; Hummelen, Benjamin

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Methodological and quantitative issues in the study of personality pathology

Methodological and quantitative issues in the study of personality pathology

To advance research on personality disorders, a special issue of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment presents articles on quantitative and methodological issues of importance to the field.
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Ten-year retrospective on the DSM–5 alternative model of personality disorder: Seeing the forest for the trees

A 10-year retrospective on the DSM–5 alternative model of personality disorders

A special issue of Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment reviews the state of the science on the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders nearly 10 years after its publication.
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Joshua D. Miller, PhD, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

Miller seeks to increase the use of open science practices throughout the research process.
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Middle-aged adults with borderline personality disorder potentially at higher risk for heart attacks, study says

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