Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality

I enjoyed going through this book, and I do believe incorporating measures of normal personality in to the framework of personality pathology is important. We need to be careful to not completely abandon personality disorders, ofcourse, as there may be many different maladaptive expressions of the abstract concepts identified as traits and facets in the FFM, and the facets themselves may possibly be constructed of semi-independent factors. This book will certainly help you understand one potential direction the field may take with DSM-V, though I don't think we can necessarily treat the FFM as containing every "trait" that would be clinically useful in a diagnostic system and individuals with various collections of traits may present differently. It will do what every good book should though, make you think about some of the assumptions that you normally operate under. Todd Finnerty, Psy.D. Author, Depressive Personality Disorder: Understanding Current Trends in Research and Practice Depressive Personality Disorder: Understanding Current Trends in Research and Practice

A good starting point for adding the FFM at domain and facet levels to diagnose personality disorders, a useful tool to better comprehend individual differences in our current DSM categorical system. FFM assessment with the NEO PI-R helps me, as clinician, to build good therapeutic alliances with patients via collaborative assessments, since it seems easier to use common language terms a)for the patient to understand his/her underlying maladaptive schemas, and b)the clinician to aprehend strenghts in the patient's personality . Hope that the 3rd edition brings data on the use of NEO PI-R form R.