Abstract: Journal of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry Research

Abstract:
A re-conception of cluster B personality disorders as post-traumatic dissociative conditions involving self-states (subpersonalities with pseudoidentities). The field of personality disorders is at an impasse, reflected in the competing diagnostic models in the DSM 5 and the comorbidity polythetic crisis. Recasting cluster B personality disorders as post-traumatic conditions involving dissociation goes a long way towards resolving many outstanding conundrums