In both child and adult psychiatry, empirical evidence has now accrued to suggest that a
single dimension is able to measure a person's liability to mental disorder, comorbidity …

This theoretical article revives a classical bridging construct, canalization, to describe a new
model of a general factor of psychopathology. To achieve this, we have distinguished …

Mental disorder classification provides a definitional framework that underlies applied
clinical and research efforts to understand, assess, predict, prevent and ameliorate the …

Reflective functioning or mentalizing is the capacity to interpret both the self and others in
terms of internal mental states such as feelings, wishes, goals, desires, and attitudes. This …

Childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk for most forms of psychopathology.
We examine emotion dysregulation as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking maltreatment …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

For decades many clinicians, especially psychodynamic and humanistic therapists, have
resisted thinking about their patients in terms of categorical diagnoses. In the current era …

This paper sets out a recent transition in our thinking in relation to psychopathology
associated with personality disorder, in an approach that integrates our thinking about …

Co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders is well documented. Recent quantitative efforts have
moved toward an understanding of this phenomenon, with the general psychopathology or p …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of outcome studies and meta‐analyses of
effectiveness studies of psychodynamic therapy (PDT) for the major categories of mental …