Expanding the Role of Levels of Personality Functioning in Personality Disorder Taxonomy: Commentary on "Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP". uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) construes personality disorder diagnosis in terms of levels of personality functioning (LPF) as well as dimensions of pathological personality traits. The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), which offers a comprehensive framework for conceptualizing psychopathology, integrates pathological personality traits into a model for understanding different disorders, deficits, and personality problems. Widiger et al. ( 2018 ) placed LPF within the HiTOP model, suggesting that LPF might already be subsumed by trait dimensions and other spectra representing severity of psychopathology. This commentary raises a number of questions about their underlying assumptions, and advocates for an expanded role for LPF to more fully capture the complexity and instability inherent in personality disorder pathology.

publication date

  • March 25, 2019

Research

keywords

  • Personality Disorders
  • Psychopathology

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85063382242

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1080/00223891.2018.1551228

PubMed ID

  • 30907636

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 101

issue

  • 4