Personality lives in the intersubjective space between people: Comment on Miskewicz et al. (2022).

Abstract

Comments on the original article by Miskewicz et al. (see record 2021-98114-001) regarding personality traits and personality processes. The authors want to be clear that they are not advocating for the retention of a categorical diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Rather, they are advocating for the possibility that the BPD construct, all along, has captured an essential and core "process" associated with personality pathology that has to do with how an individual manages the self in relation to others. Here, they urge Miskewicz et al. (2022) along with others (Fleeson et al., 2019; Hopwood, 2018) to go beyond redescription of traits-that is, defining the core process of personality pathology through a simple stimulus-response (trigger-symptom) lens. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).