Etiology of personality disorders: A commentary on Dr. Parker's tripartite model

Journal/Book: J Pers Disord. 1997; 11: 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012. Guilford Publications Inc. 370-374.

Abstract: 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.

Note: Article Cloninger CR, Washington Univ, Sch Med, Ctr Psychobiol Personal, 4940 Childrens Pl, St Louis,MO 63110 USA

Keyword(s): NOVELTY SEEKING; TEMPERAMENT; CHARACTER; QUESTIONNAIRE; CLONINGER; SYSTEMS

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