Volume 37 · Number 2
FEBRUARY 2007

Personality Disorders

By David Bienenfeld, MD

When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed., (DSM-III) was published in 1980, it revolutionized — and polarized — psychiatric nosology. Two innovations raised issues that are active a quarter century later. These items relate to personality disorders and are addressed in this edition of Psychiatric Annals.

ABOUT THE GUEST EDITOR

David Bienenfeld, MD, is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the Wright State University School of Medicine, where he serves as Director of the Residency Training Program. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MD from the University of Cincinnati. He also completed his residency training in psychiatry and his fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Bienenfeld is the author of a number of papers and book chapters on depression, dementia and psychotherapy in the elderly. He is also the editor of a major textbook in the field of geriatric psychiatry, Verwoerdt’s Clinical Geropsychiatry. 3rd edition, and the author of an important psychotherapy text, Psychodynamic Theory for Clinicians.