title: Theodore Millon's Contributions to Conceptualizing Personality Disorders.
abstract: We review Theodore Millon's contributions to conceptualizing personality disorders in contemporary clinical science and practice. Millon worked tirelessly across professional domains and theoretical orientations, developing a rich integrative theory of personality and its pathology, directly and indirectly impacting the evolving iterations of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III through DSM-5), and advocating for the personality disorders through his contributions to cofounding the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Personality Disorders. We conclude with a closer look at Millon's final major contributions to conceptualizing personality disorders as well as the strengths and limitations of his approach.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Aaron L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Pincus
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Krueger
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics