Ten-year retrospective on the DSM-5 alternative model of personality disorder: Seeing the forest for the trees.

This is an introduction to the special issue "The DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorders: A Ten-Year Retrospective." The authors begin by summarizing the main findings and recommendations from each target review and its commentaries, as well as the shorter review articles, after which they offer additional remarks in the hopes of contributing to the setting of an agenda for the next iteration of the DSM. Their main conclusion is that the experts invited to participate in this special issue agree on the value of dimensionalization of personality pathology-that is, describing personality from typical to atypical (Criterion A) and using dimensions that explain covariation of symptoms of psychopathology (Criterion A and Criterion B), instead of categories, to denote personality pathology (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).