ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter we outlined a general model for understanding how personality differences can connect to psychological disorders. In this chapter we examine the personality aspect in more detail. For the moment we shall mostly concentrate on those dispositional dimensions that relate to the non-psychotic disorders, as we have already broadly defined them. As a starting point, it is logical to pick up where we left off in Chapter 2, with the work of Eysenck, whose theory is the prototypical example of how normal personality has been linked to the abnormal. This will also allow us then to introduce contemporary themes from the more recent literature.
