Posted by Dinah on January 16, 2004, at 8:57:55
In reply to Personality disorder as a character issue???, posted by socialdeviantjeff on January 16, 2004, at 3:04:26
The term "personality disorder" is bad enough, and should be removed entirely from the diagnostic lexicon in my humble opinion. Most are based on underlying mood or anxiety disorders anyway. Avoidant and obsessive compulsive personality disorders are so clearly a response to anxiety. Borderline personality disorder is so clearly a mood regulation problem. Introversion is so much a part of many of the disorders that it really should just be listed as a diagnostic entity that bears no overtones of judgement. They could move the underlying part of the diagnosis to Axis I. "Reactive mood disorder" or "GAD" or "Social Phobia".
Then Axis II could be changed to "defensive structures" if they want a shorthand way of grouping behavioral tendencies, since those behavioral tendencies *are* characteristic defenses against the underlying feelings.
Sorry, pet peeve of mine. The whole thing seem so judgmental and antitherapuetic.
Someone get the DSM committee on the phone for me!
poster:Dinah
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