Missed opportunities in the DSM-5 Section III personality disorder model: commentary on "personality disorders are the vanguard of the post-DSM-5.0 era".

Comments on an article by Krueger (see record 2013-45025-008). The current authors appreciate the opportunity to comment on Krueger's article. They remark that as a member of the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group (PPDWG), he is in a unique position to describe the process surrounding the deliberations of the PPDWG and why their model was placed in Section III. Whereas Krueger offers that too much openness and contentiousness in the personality and personality disorder (PD) field were responsible for the difficulties faced by the DSM-5 PPDWG proposal, the current authors suggest another condition that may have been at play: myopia. The current authors discuss several shortsighted decisions made by the PPDWG that may have contributed to the disappointing outcome. Specifically, they describe ways in which the PPDWG ignored large bodies of extant research that could have guided and supported the proposal, inoculating it against many of the most damning critiques.