Article ; Online: Personality disorders research and social decontextualization: What it means to be a minoritized human.
2023 Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 29–38
Abstract: ... e.g., sexual/gender minority [SGM] persons for our purposes). Assumptions ...
Abstract | Models of personality disorders have overwhelmingly developed in a socially decontextualized manner. Some historical models of personality pathology formally embraced the interactions between the individual and their environment. However, the field of personality disorder theory, research, and treatment has evolved in a manner that situates dysfunction within intraindividual deficiency processes. By doing so the field limits its applicability to populations that do not represent the norm in clinical psychological science (e.g., sexual/gender minority [SGM] persons for our purposes). Assumptions about personality disorders conflict with evidence-based ways of understanding psychosocial dysfunction among minoritized populations. Using research on SGM populations, and the detrimental impact of minority stress, we demonstrate how sociocultural context is inextricably linked to psychosocial functioning, which remains at odds with personality disorder theory and research. We first briefly review the historical roots of personality disorder theory; explore how sociocultural context is currently instantiated in official nosologies as the |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Personality Disorders ; Personality ; Sexual Behavior ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ; Psychosocial Functioning |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-03-08 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 2540907-4 |
ISSN | 1949-2723 ; 1949-2715 |
ISSN (online) | 1949-2723 |
ISSN | 1949-2715 |
DOI | 10.1037/per0000600 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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