Bo Bach, Ueli Kramer, Stephan Doering, Ester di Giacomo, Joost Hutsebaut, Andres Kaera, Chiara De Panfilis, Christian Schmahl, Michaela Swales, Svenja Taubner, Babette Renneberg
The 11th revision of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) includes a fundamentally new approach to Personality Disorders (PD). ICD-11 is expected to be implemented first in European countries before other WHO member states. The present paper provides an overview of this new ICD-11 model including PD severity classification, trait domain specifiers, and the additional borderline pattern specifier. We discuss the perceived challenges and opportunities of using the ICD-11 approach with particular focus on its continuity and discontinuity with familiar PD categories such as avoidant PD and narcissistic PD...
April 1, 2022: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation