Beyond the illusion of personality: Part II: A comment on identity pathology

An enormous amount of papers in the field of personality disorder tend to fall prey to a cognitive bias that I have termed ''the illusion of personality (pathology)'': that is, the tendency to view all individual differences as personality differences (and their deviations from the norm as personality problems). In this brief paper, I illustrate how this illusion reifies the concept of ''personality disorder'' by making researchers think they have provided evidence for this concept when in fact they have provided evidence against it (by showing, for example, that only *some aspects* of personality are most impaired in those with this diagnosis).