The association of pathological and “normal-range” personality traits with psychotic-like experiences in a general population sample.

Drvaric, Lauren; Bagby, R. Michael

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“…In trait psychology, meta‐analytic results have convincingly shown that normal‐range traits do not capture Psychoticism (or frank psychotic phenomena) adequately (Knežević et al, 2016). Similarly, a “head‐to‐head” study between pathological traits and normal‐range traits has shown that the former predicted psychotic experiences in the general population to a much higher degree (i.e., it explained almost 20% of variance over and above normal‐range traits), suggesting its superior ability to assess the risk for developing psychotic symptoms (Drvaric & Bagby, 2021). Thus, it seems crucial that future theoretical personality models, or revisions of current ones, account for the presence of psychotic symptoms.…”

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Time to put aside the false dichotomy between personality disorders and psychotic symptoms

Leclerc,

Gamache,

Cailhol

2024

J Clin Psychol

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Unlike internalizing and externalizing symptoms, psychotic symptoms (e.g., hallucinations, delusions) are manifestations of personality disorders (PDs) that are more controversial and poorly understood. This leaves clinicians with very little guidance for clinical practice, especially for diagnosis. What is more, most reviews have focused strictly on the links between psychotic symptoms and the categorically defined borderline PD, which contrasts with the growing movement that emphasizes a dimensional perspective (especially in psychology). Thus, the objectives of this critical review will be to (a) expose typical cases where PDs and psychotic symptoms might cooccur; (b) assess the state of scientific knowledge surrounding PD and psychotic symptoms; and (c) provide clinicians and researchers with recommendations to keep the field moving forward. We conclude that researchers and clinicians should move past the false “PD or psychosis” dichotomy since they often cooccur, avoid (as far as possible) making psychotic symptoms an exclusion criterion in PD research to enhance ecological validity, and consider dimensional PD diagnosis as a potential unifying solution to the dilemma posed by this cooccurrence.

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confidence: 99%