Key words: overcontrol, distress overtolerance, perfectionism, personality, psychopathology
Despite the high prevalence and the recurrence of severe psychopathological outcomes, perfectionistic and overcontrolled personality traits have received very little attention from scholars and public health services. Recently, authors such as Paul Hewitt, Thomas Lynch and Paul Gilbert have fostered the development of psychometric and conceptual tools for understanding these personality styles and therefore for planning and evaluating evidence-based interventions. The present special issue was outlined with the aim of offering the Italian public what we believe are fundamental psychometric measures to guide the clinician’s work. This first article describes the normative sample on which the validation studies were conducted. Then two editorials are reported in this special issue, written directly by the creators of the two reference models: the dynamic-relational model of perfectionism according to Paul Hewitt; Thomas Lynch’s Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Finally, in the research articles the single questionnaires are presented with psychometric validation data and an example of case conceptualization based on these very measures.
DOI: doi.org/10.36131/psichpsicoterapia2111