DSM-IV Personality Disorders

In the world of mental disorders the most thought of disorders are the ones that are caused by physical or chemical abnormality. These are treated fairly easily and can be identified in early stages. There is however a certain group of disorders that is often not thought about. They are a strange, peculiar type of disorders that are not caused a physical or chemical abnormality. The cause for these disorders are the exaggeration of personality traits like shyness, apathy, or introversion. The people also do not know that they are sick and that causes them to not seek for help from anyone. Not only do they not know of their own condition they tend to think it is the normal to act that way. Since they do not know about themselves, others tend …show more content…
The most general of the research being on how the current model system of DSM-V works in accessing the type of personality disorders. The wording uses tables to help convey its point that the current system works in a practical sense. In the 2014 Journal by Sellbom, Martin, Wineke Smid, Hilde De Saeger, Naomi Smit, and Jan H. Kamphuis named "Mapping the Personality Psychopathology Five Domains Onto DSM–IV Personality Disorders in Dutch Clinical and Forensic Samples: Implications for DSM–5," wrote about how the model current model categorical processing work and explains why it is a great t model to be used. There are also people who propose a new fix in the current system and a new prototype to the system. This is wildly written about in Westen Drew’s journal “A Prototype Approach to Personality Disorder Diagnosis,” which was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2006. There also, research on the other side in fact, more article against the current system have been found and documented. The article "Classification, Assessment, Prevalence, and Effect of Personality Disorder," written and edited by Tyrer, Peter, Geoffrey M. Reed, and Mike J. Crawford give details into why the model system does not cover the difficulty of defining precisely in real life patients instead the theory of the DSM-V template that is stated to by unreliable. This debate has been going on for over 20+ years at least. In the 1989 …show more content…
The test was tested by Sellbom, Martin, Wineke Smid, Hilde De Saeger, Naomi Smit, and Jan H. Kamphuis in their article "Mapping the Personality Psychopathology Five Domains Onto DSM–IV Personality Disorders in Dutch Clinical and Forensic Samples: Implications for DSM–5." This test show that in different environment around the worlds that the system does not have any major fluctuations in the results. So, this shows what the models are about even when compared to the personal approach which had some higher results the fact that this test can be used quickly enough to see if some disorder is present has a great effect on how useful the system is. The new test may produce better results but are impractical in the sense of how many people need to be helped. The time it would take to do a personal interview with each patient would take an incredible amount of time to do and accomplish. In the journal article "Classification, Assessment, Prevalence, and Effect of Personality Disorder," the authors Tyrer, Peter, Geoffrey M. Reed, and Mike J. Crawford state the current system has many overlaps and is invalid because of this. They are not thinking how much time is saved when an easy to use system is given to us or how it can find people who have a