- Widiger, Thomas A;
- Bach, Bo;
- Chmielewski, Michael;
- Clark, Lee Anna;
- DeYoung, Colin;
- Hopwood, Christopher J;
- Kotov, Roman;
- Krueger, Robert F;
- Miller, Joshua D;
- Morey, Leslie C;
- Mullins-Sweatt, Stephanie N;
- Patrick, Christopher J;
- Pincus, Aaron L;
- Samuel, Douglas B;
- Sellbom, Martin;
- South, Susan C;
- Tackett, Jennifer L;
- Watson, David;
- Waugh, Mark H;
- Wright, Aidan GC;
- Zimmermann, Johannes;
- Bagby, R Michael;
- Cicero, David C;
- Conway, Christopher C;
- De Clercq, Barbara;
- Docherty, Anna R;
- Eaton, Nicholas R;
- Forbush, Kelsie T;
- Haltigan, JD;
- Ivanova, Masha Y;
- Latzman, Robert D;
- Lynam, Donald R;
- Markon, Kristian E;
- Reininghaus, Ulrich;
- Thomas, Katherine M
The categorical model of personality disorder classification in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed. [DSM-5]; American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ) is highly and fundamentally problematic. Proposed for DSM-5 and provided within Section III (for Emerging Measures and Models) was the Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD) classification, consisting of Criterion A (self-interpersonal deficits) and Criterion B (maladaptive personality traits). A proposed alternative to the DSM-5 more generally is an empirically based dimensional organization of psychopathology identified as the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP; Kotov et al., 2017 ). HiTOP currently includes, at the highest level, a general factor of psychopathology. Further down are the five domains of detachment, antagonistic externalizing, disinhibited externalizing, thought disorder, and internalizing (along with a provisional sixth somatoform dimension) that align with Criterion B. The purpose of this article is to discuss the potential inclusion and placement of the self-interpersonal deficits of the DSM-5 Section III Criterion A within HiTOP.