title: Changing views about personality disorders: Comment about the prospective studies CIC, CLPS, and MSAD.
abstract: Three large-scale prospective studies (Children in the Community Study [CIC; Cohen, Crawford, Johnson, & Kasen, this issue], Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study [CLPS; Skodol et al., this issue], and the McLean Study of Adult Development [MSAD; Zanarini, Frankenburg, Hennen, Reich, & Silk, this issue]) are discussed with respect to the following issues: shared and complementary features of the study designs, evidence for stable and changing personality disorder features, methodological issues (reliability, stability, and invariance), the relationship between Axis I and II disorders, and dimensional versus categorical representations of personality disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Germany. ralf.pukrop@uk-koeln.de
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pukrop
authors.forename: Maya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krischer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales