title: Caught in an unconscious split: commentary on "the ironic fate of the personality disorders in DSM-5".
abstract: Silk comments that "The Ironic Fate of the Personality Disorders in DSM-5" (see record 2013-45025-004) is a clearly written, accurate account of events attendant to the development and eventual rejection by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) of the Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group's (PPDWG's) proposal for a substantially revised system for diagnosing personality disorders (PD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Silk appreciates the authors' dispassionate account of what was a difficult and, at times, affect-laden process for not only those in the PPDWG but also other clinicians and researchers in the wider PD community.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Medical School.
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Silk
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D032921:Consensus; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*