Clinicians who view personality disorders as extremes of normal personality rather than as the way the DSM classifies personality disorders. have criticized
A) medical conditions
B) biologically based traits
C) separate categories of disorders
D) impaired functioning

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Criticism of viewing personality disorders as extremes of normal personality is one of the criticisms of the DSM-5's approach to classifying personality disorders, which involves separate categories of disorders. Clinicians who take this view argue that it is more accurate to understand personality disorders as existing on a continuum of normal personality rather than as distinct categories of disorder. Therefore, the criticism is aimed at the categorization of disorders and not at medical conditions, biologically based traits, or impaired functioning.

Clinicians Who View Personality Disorders as Extremes of Normal Personality