Unfortunately, I don't think you can. You have to buy a copy of an SCID manual, which - as you probably know - is quite expensive. It's probably best to hunt down a cheaper, second-hand copy. You can always sell it on when you're done with it.
Alternatively, couldn't you perhaps just get a copy on loan through your university library, interlibrary loans system?
Did you read Otto Kernbergs book of Narcissism. It is very especially the chapters of the interview.
best.Marita
Yes unfortunately, these things are not free, even not for researchers which I think is a major unethical issue in Adademia since most of these instruments are developed by organizations/universities that are funded at least in part by public money (!) so the instruments should be free for research.
Anyway, here are information about it, if you consider buying:
http://www.scid4.org/faq/scid_2.html
Dear Mandy, If you are planning a new study or a new project you should use the SCID-5-RV (SCID 5 Research Version) accordding to the new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and not the older DSM-IV.
As Rico says it is a problem in academic fields that such instruments are not free available in most cases. But it is also unethical not to respect copyright and to share unauthorized copies of invetories or manuals. As members of scientific community we all wish that other researchers will respect our own copyrights. So we should do with the copyright of others resp. publishers.
On the other hand it should be possible to get the manual and the interview from your Psychological Department or from your Universities library.
Kind regards and good luck for your work.
http://www.scid4.org/index.html
Mandy, here is what you need to do:
1) Go to http://www.scid4.org/faq/scidfaq.html and this site will give you all information you need to get the SCID-I
2) For excellent summary of the SCID-I (including its psychometric properties) check the following chapter:
First, M. B., Spitzer R. L., Gibbson, M., and Williams, J. B. W. (2008). Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV- Axis I Disorders (SCID-I). In A. J. Rush, M. B. First, & D. Blacker (Eds.), Handbook of Psychiatric measures (pp. 40-43. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
That chapter will also give you additional references with emphasis on the original source for the SCID-I, its publication in a book format, and further research with emphasis on the psychometric properties of this instrument conducted by independent researchers (First, Spitzer et al. are the original researchers who developed the SCID-I in the New York -Biometrics Research, New York Psychiatric Institute in 1995).
The first question is which personality disorders are of interest to you. The CAAPE-5 would give you a good assessment of antisocial personality disorder, but only very brief screening for a few others. If you want to cover the whole range of disorders, your only recourse would be the SCID-5 or maybe the ICDI (Composite International Diagnostic Interview) if it covers personality disorders.
One of the problems you will have is overlapping criteria of the personality disorders as formulated in the DSM-5. The fact is that few, if any, of the DSM-5 diagnoses have any rigorous empirical support. The fact that the DSM-5 has both the old personality disorder formulations and “alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders” attests to the fact that nobody has sound empirical support for these diagnoses.
If is just concerning the assessment for BPD the best and easiest and most freely available measure is the Gunderson interview by Dr John Gunderson
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