Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Etiology
- Part II Models
- Part III Individual Disorders and Clusters
- 9 Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 9a Conceptual and Methodological Reflections on Schizotypy, Schizotypic Psychopathology, Cluster A Disorders, and Schizophrenia: Commentary on Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 9b Improved Operationalization and Measurement Are Central to the Future of Cluster A Personality Disorders: Commentary on Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 9c Cluster A Heterogeneity: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 10 Borderline Personality Disorder
- 10a Further Reflections on Assessment, Etiology, and Treatment: Commentary on Borderline Personality Disorder
- 10b Integrating Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: Commentary on Borderline Personality Disorder
- 10c The Promise of Applying a Developmental Psychopathology Framework to the Etiology and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Borderline Personality Disorder
- 11 An Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 11a What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Psychopathy? Commentary on an Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 11b Issues of Emphasis in the Triarchic Psychopathy Model: Commentary on an Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 11c An Agreeable Response to Questions and Criticisms: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on an Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 12 Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 12a A Call for Scientific Caution: Commentary on Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 12b Beyond Nucleus Diagnostic Conceptualizations: Commentary on Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 12c Clinical Personality Science of Narcissism Should Include the Clinic: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 13 Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- 13a Epidemiological, Factor-Analytic, and Cognitive Factors in the Position of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder among the Cluster C Personality Disorders: Commentary on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- 13b Examining Cluster C Personality Pathology Using an Interpersonal Lens: Commentary on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- 13c Processes, Mechanisms, and Progress: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- Part IV Assessment
- Part V Treatment
- Index
- References
13a - Epidemiological, Factor-Analytic, and Cognitive Factors in the Position of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder among the Cluster C Personality Disorders: Commentary on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
from Part III - Individual Disorders and Clusters
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Etiology
- Part II Models
- Part III Individual Disorders and Clusters
- 9 Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 9a Conceptual and Methodological Reflections on Schizotypy, Schizotypic Psychopathology, Cluster A Disorders, and Schizophrenia: Commentary on Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 9b Improved Operationalization and Measurement Are Central to the Future of Cluster A Personality Disorders: Commentary on Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 9c Cluster A Heterogeneity: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Cluster A Personality Disorders
- 10 Borderline Personality Disorder
- 10a Further Reflections on Assessment, Etiology, and Treatment: Commentary on Borderline Personality Disorder
- 10b Integrating Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: Commentary on Borderline Personality Disorder
- 10c The Promise of Applying a Developmental Psychopathology Framework to the Etiology and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Borderline Personality Disorder
- 11 An Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 11a What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Psychopathy? Commentary on an Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 11b Issues of Emphasis in the Triarchic Psychopathy Model: Commentary on an Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 11c An Agreeable Response to Questions and Criticisms: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on an Integrative Biobehavioral Trait Perspective on Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- 12 Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 12a A Call for Scientific Caution: Commentary on Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 12b Beyond Nucleus Diagnostic Conceptualizations: Commentary on Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 12c Clinical Personality Science of Narcissism Should Include the Clinic: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders
- 13 Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- 13a Epidemiological, Factor-Analytic, and Cognitive Factors in the Position of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder among the Cluster C Personality Disorders: Commentary on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- 13b Examining Cluster C Personality Pathology Using an Interpersonal Lens: Commentary on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- 13c Processes, Mechanisms, and Progress: Author Rejoinder to Commentaries on Cluster C Anxious-Fearful Personality Pathology and Avoidance
- Part IV Assessment
- Part V Treatment
- Index
- References
Summary
This commentary presents some reflections on the peculiar position obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) has among Cluster C PDs. Based on epidemiological, factor-analytic, and cognitive considerations, it is argued that OCPD deviates from avoidant and dependent PD. First, epidemiological research shows that in the general population OCPD is not associated with markers of poor functioning and unfortunate living circumstances. On the contrary, positive associations between OCPD and such markers are found. Moreover, disproportionally few people with OCPD seek mental health care. Second, based on a second-order factor analysis on a large data set that confirms the cluster structure in PDs, it is argued that OCPD has a deviant position, relatively weakly loading on the cluster-C factor. Third, research on cognitive processes and structures in PDs indicates that OCPD deviates from avoidant and dependent PD in several ways, including sharing an interpretation style with nonpatients, and in not reporting vulnerable cognitive-emotional states. Dysfunctional cognitive characteristics might be pushed out of awareness by powerful overcompensatory strategies that are more characteristic for Cluster B than for Cluster C. Alternatively, OCPD is characterized more by deviant cognitive processes than by specific content of schemas. OCPD’s dysfunctional core should be clarified.
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