A metastructural model of mental disorders and pathological personality traits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychiatric co-morbidity is extensive in both psychiatric settings and the general population. Such co-morbidity challenges whether DSM-based mental disorders serve to effectively carve nature at its joints. In response, a substantial literature has emerged showing that a small number of broad dimensions - internalizing, externalizing and psychoticism - can account for much of the observed covariation among common mental disorders. However, the location of personality disorders within this emerging metastructure has only recently been studied, and no studies have yet examined where pathological personality traits fit within such a broad metastructural framework.

Method

We conducted joint structural analyses of common mental disorders, personality disorders and pat

SUBMITTER: Wright AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4498970 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature