Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorders - Paperbackby Armand W. Loranger (Editor), Aleksandar Janca (Editor), Norman Sartorius (Editor) Until recently, the diagnosis and assessment of personality disorders had lagged considerably behind that of most other mental disorders. The IPDE is a new instrument that is compatible, through two modules, with both ICD 10 and DSM IV criteria. In the form of a semistructured clinical interview, it now provides a means of measuring major categories of personality