An Interview with Thomas Widiger

29/03/2012 19 min
An Interview with Thomas Widiger

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Thomas Widiger, Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his most recent article for the journal, co-authored with Allen Frances of Duke University. In it, they list the lessons learned in the making DSM-IV and warn the makers of the fifth edition of the DSM against potential pitfalls. In the podcast, Professor Widiger discusses this article as well as the five-factor model, a dimensional model of general personality structure that he believes should be a tool for the diagnosis of personality disorders.