title: A personality trait model for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM): the challenges ahead.
abstract: We were sincerely flattered to discover that John Gunderson, Michael First, Paul Costa, Robert McCrae, Michael Hallquist, and Paul Pilkonis provided commentaries on our target article. In this brief response, we cannot hope to discuss the myriad points raised by this august group. Such a task would be particularly daunting given the diversity of the commentaries. Indeed, the diversity of the commentaries provides a kind of "metacommentary" on the state of personality and psychopathology research. That is, the intellectual diversity contained in the commentaries underlines the substantial challenges that lie ahead of us, in terms of articulating a model of personality and psychopathology with both scientific validity and clinical applicability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. krueg038@umn.edu
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Krueger
authors.forename: Nicholas R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Eaton
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification*; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification*; D011599:Psychopathology / Q000145:classification*