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Journal of Personality Assessment Volume 93, 2011 - Issue 2: Can the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) Put the Complex Person Back at the Center-Stage of Personality Assessment?
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The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: An Effort to Compensate for the Limitations of Descriptive Psychiatric Diagnosis

Nancy McWilliams Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Pages 112-122 | Received 21 Jan 2010, Published online: 23 Feb 2011

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Marko Biberdzic & Brin F. S. Grenyer. (2023) How Much Training Do We Need? Assessing the Validity and Interrater Reliability of the PDM-2’s Psychodiagnostic Chart among Less Experienced Clinicians. Journal of Personality Assessment 105:3, pages 436-444.
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