title: So many researchers are sincerely scientific about factitious fictions: some comments on the DSM classification of personality disorders.
abstract: Two comments/questions are flagged and discussed in response to an article by E. David Klonsky on the DSM classification of personality disorders: (a) What is a good way to arrive at the categories of the thing you want to categorize? (b) Categorizing some thing has nothing to do with whether the thing is real, but it is an exceedingly clever ploy.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada. amahrer@uottawa.ca
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Mahrer
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012107:Research Design; D009626:Terminology as Topic