Developments in Affective Neuroscience Can Contribute to a Social Medicine/Social Psychiatry Approach to Personality Disorder

Personality disorder is a manifestation of complex processes taking place at individual, structural and societal levels. We propose how recent developments in affective neuroscience may contribute to Social Medicine/Social Psychiatry in addressing this complexity, offering a clinical vignette as an example of potential improvement in practice at the interpersonal, and service organization levels. We draw out the implications for training and service development.