Assessment and classification of personality disorders have evolved from rigid categorical schemes towards integrative models that capture both severity of dysfunction and underlying trait dimensions.

Dimensional models of personality disorders are increasingly popular, but do they obscure real clinical syndromes?

It is usually easy for us to live our lives when things are calm and easy. But how do we handle life when the going gets tough? For this, we have a variety of capacities that help us regulate our self ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, John M. Oldham, MD, MS, one of psychiatry's most influential architects of personality disorder theory, traces his ...

An individual’s genetics and their environment both shape their personality. However, opinions differ on the degree to which each of these factors influences personality, and how they contribute to ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...