Chunk #76 — Psychopathology Description and Diagnosis — On the Comprehensiveness, Utility, and Parsimony of Using Homogeneous Constructs to Describe Psychopathology — The utility of disaggregation in psychopathology description
In addition, it does not appear to be the case that a shift to our proposed form of description would require clinicians to learn new concepts or a new professional language. The FFM personality traits are readily accessible to clinicians, as are the affectivity dimensions involved in the Brown and Barlow (2009) proposal.
