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Overview

Bo Bach is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology, Philosophy, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. Their research portfolio includes considerable work on personality disorders, psychopathology, and mental health.

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1 (2020), published in Psychopathology
  • How does level of personality functioning inform clinical management and treatment? Implications for ICD-11 classification of personality disorder severity (2020), published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry
  • Development and initial evaluation of the ICD-11 personality disorder severity scale: PDS-ICD-11 (2021), published in Personality and Mental Health
  • The ICD-11 classification of personality disorders: a European perspective on challenges and opportunities (2022), published in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • A Common Metric for Self-Reported Severity of Personality Disorder (2020), published in Psychopathology

Bo Bach has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Martin Sellbom
  • Erik Simonsen
  • Nina Reinholt
  • Sidse Arnfred
  • Johannes Zimmermann

Their publications appear predominantly in these venues:

  • Personality and Mental Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Journal of Personality Disorders

Bo Bach has also authored books published by Hogrefe Publishing eBooks, including ICD-11 Personality Disorders (2024) and ICD-11 Persönlichkeitsstörungen (2025).

Their research covers a variety of topics such as:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Best Publications

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

    Robert F. Krueger;Roman Kotov;David Watson;Miriam K. Forbes

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

    Christopher C. Conway;Miriam K. Forbes;Kelsie T. Forbush;Eiko I. Fried

  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • Integrating the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) into clinical practice

    Camilo J. Ruggero;Roman Kotov;Christopher J. Hopwood;Michael First

  • Application of the ICD-11 classification of personality disorders

    Bo Bach;Michael B First

  • A new look at the schema therapy model: organization and role of early maladaptive schemas

    Bo Bach;George Lockwood;Jeffrey E. Young

  • Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP

    Thomas A. Widiger;Bo Bach;Michael Chmielewski;Lee Anna Clark

  • Deriving ICD‐11 personality disorder domains from dsm‐5 traits: initial attempt to harmonize two diagnostic systems

    Bo Bach;Martin Sellbom;Mickey Kongerslev;Erik Simonsen

  • International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1

    Bo Bach;André Kerber;Anton Aluja;Tim Bastiaens

  • The alternative DSM-5 personality disorder traits criterion: A comparative examination of three self-report forms in a Danish population.

    Bo Bach;Jessica L. Maples-Keller;Sune Bo;Erik Simonsen

  • Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0: Utility in Capturing Personality Problems in Psychiatric Outpatients and Incarcerated Addicts.

    Bo Bach;Joost Hutsebaut

  • The ICD-11 classification of personality disorders: a European perspective on challenges and opportunities

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  • The Young Schema Questionnaire 3 Short Form (YSQ-S3)

    Bo Bach;Erik Simonsen;Peter Christoffersen;Levente Kriston

  • ICD-11 and DSM-5 personality trait domains capture categorical personality disorders: Finding a common ground.

    Bo Bach;Martin Sellbom;Mathias Skjernov;Erik Simonsen

  • Clinical utility of the DSM-5 alternative model of personality disorders: six cases from practice.

    Bo Bach;Kristian Markon;Erik Simonsen;Robert F. Krueger

  • How does level of personality functioning inform clinical management and treatment? Implications for ICD-11 classification of personality disorder severity.

    Bo Bach;Sebastian Simonsen

  • Redefining Phenotypes to Advance Psychiatric Genetics: Implications From Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology

    Monika A. Waszczuk;Nicholas R. Eaton;Robert F. Krueger;Alexander J. Shackman

  • Development and initial evaluation of the ICD-11 personality disorder severity scale: PDS-ICD-11.

    Bo Bach;Tiffany A. Brown;Roger T. Mulder;Giles Newton-Howes

  • A Common Metric for Self-Reported Severity of Personality Disorder

    Johannes Zimmermann;Steffen Müller;Bo Bach;Joost Hutsebaut

  • Clinical utility of the alternative model of personality disorders: A 10th year anniversary review.

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  • Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) in Clinical Versus Nonclinical Individuals: Generalizability of Psychometric Features.

    Bo Bach;Martin Sellbom;Erik Simonsen

  • Reliability and Hierarchical Structure of DSM-5 Pathological Traits in a Danish Mixed Sample

    Sune Bo;Bo Bach;Erik Lykke Mortensen;Erik Simonsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Simonsen
Erik Simonsen University of Copenhagen
Martin Sellbom
Martin Sellbom Monash University
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Johannes Zimmermann
Johannes Zimmermann University of Kassel
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt Oklahoma State University
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Kelsie T. Forbush
Kelsie T. Forbush University of Kansas
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Christopher J. Hopwood
Christopher J. Hopwood University of Zurich
Nicholas R. Eaton
Nicholas R. Eaton Stony Brook University

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