TY - JOUR
T1 - Etiology of personality disorders
T2 - A commentary on Dr. Parker's tripartite model
AU - Cloninger, C. Robert
PY - 1997/1/1
Y1 - 1997/1/1
N2 - The review of the etiology of personality disorders by Dr. Gordon Parker is critically evaluated. Personality development is considered as a complex adaptive system that is hierarchically self-organizing. This involves three interactive phases, beginning with interactions among emotion-based dimensions of temperament in infancy, next socially molded by the emergence of character or concepts about self-object relationships, and finally vulnerability to psychopathology as a result of modulation of experience by both emotion-based temperament and concept-based character. Accordingly, functional impairment is a predictable property of temperament and character, rather than an independent component of personality disorder as suggested by Parker.
AB - The review of the etiology of personality disorders by Dr. Gordon Parker is critically evaluated. Personality development is considered as a complex adaptive system that is hierarchically self-organizing. This involves three interactive phases, beginning with interactions among emotion-based dimensions of temperament in infancy, next socially molded by the emergence of character or concepts about self-object relationships, and finally vulnerability to psychopathology as a result of modulation of experience by both emotion-based temperament and concept-based character. Accordingly, functional impairment is a predictable property of temperament and character, rather than an independent component of personality disorder as suggested by Parker.
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U2 - 10.1521/pedi.1997.11.4.370
DO - 10.1521/pedi.1997.11.4.370
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031426025
SN - 0885-579X
VL - 11
SP - 370
EP - 374
JO - Journal of Personality Disorders
JF - Journal of Personality Disorders
IS - 4
ER -