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All mental disorders as personality disorders

  • Orestis Zavlis
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Abstract

In this piece, I make the case that all mental disorders can be understood as personality disorders. To do so, I begin with a minimal definition of “personality” and then show how it leads to the paradoxical, yet also logical, conclusion that all mental disorders are equally “personality disordered”. I then close by suggesting that clinical researchers should study all mental disorders as personality disorders.

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@misc{zavlis2026mental,
  title = {{All mental disorders as personality disorders}},
  author = {Orestis Zavlis},
  howpublished = {PsyArXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.31234/osf.io/cxwqe_v1},
  url = {https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cxwqe_v1/},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - All mental disorders as personality disorders
AU  - Orestis Zavlis
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/02
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DO  - 10.31234/osf.io/cxwqe_v1
UR  - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cxwqe_v1/
AB  - In this piece, I make the case that all mental disorders can be understood as personality disorders. To do so, I begin with a minimal definition of “personality” and then show how it leads to the paradoxical, yet also logical, conclusion that all mental disorders are equally “personality disordered”. I then close by suggesting that clinical researchers should study all mental disorders as personality disorders.
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