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OPINION Personality disorders in Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders-5: back to the past or
back to the future?
Charles B. Pull
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Personality disorders in DSM-5 Pull
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Personality disorders
for making changes to DSM-V’ as proposed by In the end, the new model was relegated
Kendler et al. [6] and posted on the DSM-5 Website to Section III ‘for further study’ and to ‘prompt
in 2009. The reactions to remove vs. to retain continued research’. Meanwhile, the old categori-
specific personality disorders in DSM-5 have been cal model defining 10 personality disorders will
discussed at length in a review by Pull [7]. prevail.
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