Personality and the Meta-Structure of Psychopathology

Robert Krueger, PhD

Hathaway Distinguished Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

Empirical modeling of psychopathology identifies coherent spectra.  These spectra transcend constructs traditionally conceptualized as “personality” vs. “psychopathology.”  Progress in delineating biological—including genetic—correlates involves a process of interweaving biological indicators with the empirically-derived phenotypic structure of psychopathology.