The reliability and validity of traditional taxonomies are limited by arbitrary boundaries between
psychopathology and normality, often unclear boundaries between disorders, frequent …

For more than a century, research on psychopathology has focused on categorical diagnoses.
Although this work has produced major discoveries, growing evidence points to the …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirical effort to address
limitations of traditional mental disorder diagnoses. These include arbitrary boundaries …

Shortcomings of approaches to classifying psychopathology based on expert consensus have
given rise to contemporary efforts to classify psychopathology quantitatively. In this paper, …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a scientific effort to address
shortcomings of traditional mental disorder diagnoses, which suffer from arbitrary boundaries …

The concept of psychopathy has elicited attention and scientific study from the medical and
psychiatric communities for over two hundred years. In 1801 Philip Pinel identified a …

Context Studies of gene-environment interplay in the development of psychiatric and
substance use disorders are rapidly accumulating. However, few attempts have been made to …

The current study seeks to expand our understanding of the increasingly well-documented
relationship between mental disorder and violence, specifically by examining the relationship …

BackgroundThe extant major psychiatric classifications DSM-IV and ICD-10 are purportedly
atheoretical and largely descriptive. Although this achieves good reliability, the validity of a …

Pathological personality is strongly linked with interpersonal impairment, yet no study to date
has examined the relationship between concurrent personality pathology and dysfunction …