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This commentary reviews the Journal of Personality Disorders special issue "Interpersonal Trust and Borderline Personality Disorder: Insights From Clinical Practice and Research," published in Volume 37, Number 5, October 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a set of dimensional criteria was added as an emerging alternative model to the diagnosis of personality disorder (PD; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Parallel to this, within the object relations conceptualization of personality pathology, a structured interview, the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO), was developed to assess pathological personality and then revised (STIPO-R). In this study, the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the STIPO-R were tested on a sample of 236 Chinese participants, including both psychiatric patients and healthy individuals. Overall, the STIPO-R showed good internal consistency, interrater and test–retest reliability, and generally satisfactory results in structure and convergent validity. The STIPO-R also demonstrated discriminant validity (healthy individuals vs. psychiatric patients with PD vs. psychiatric patients without PD). Results are also discussed in light of cultural differences between Chinese and Western cultures. Public Significance Statement: The study illustrates high reliability and validity of the Chinese version of Structured Interview of Personality Organization–Revised, a clinical structured interview designed for the assessment of borderline PD based on object-relations theory. These results demonstrated the applicability of Structured Interview of Personality Organization–Revised on the distinguishment of PD and the initial assessment in psychotherapy in the Chinese context, which offers a novel perspective to the assessment and treatment of PDs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]