Abstract
A clinical investigation was undertaken to explore the links between Kurt Schneider's typology of personality disorders and the disorders included in Axis II of DSM-III. Eighty nonpsychotic patients who had previously received a personality disorder diagnosis in Schneider's classification were rediagnosed in terms of the DSM-III system. Significant associations were found between Schneider's insecure, labile, and unfeeling types and DSM-III's compulsive, borderline, and antisocial personality disorders, respectively. Schneider's attention-seeking and explosive types were associated with the “dramatic, emotional, erratic” cluster of personality disorders. Other relationships between the two typologies could be inferred. The members of both DSM-III's second and third clusters of personality disorders had high neuroticism scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory, but they differed on the introversion-extraversion dimension, providing evidence of the validity of these groupings. The results suggest that different classifications of personality disorders share a common formal basis, and have demonstrated a link between descriptions of normal and abnormal personality.
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