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Classifying and treating personality disorders: back to the future?
Author(s) -
Titmarsh Steve
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.236
Subject(s) - paraphrase , psychology , personality disorders , personality , psychiatry , multiple personality disorder , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , artificial intelligence , computer science
Current diagnostic criteria proposals for personality disorder in what will become the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM‐5), due to be published in May 2013, are, to paraphrase Professor Peter Tyrer, misguided. Steve Titmarsh reports on Professor Tyrer's excellent Keynote Lecture at the Latest Advances in Psychiatry Symposium in March on the problems personality disorder presents to psychiatrists and how some of the issues surrounding diagnosis might be resolved by taking a not‐so‐new approach to the problem.