Personality Disorders
Definition
Inflexible, long-standing traits that significantly impair functioning or cause great distress in one’s personal and social life
DSM-IV-TR describes 10 personality disorders
Seven of the most common types
paranoid personality disorder
pattern of distrust and suspiciousness and perceiving others as having evil motives
schizotypical personality disorder
acute discomfort in close relationships, distortions in thinking, and eccentric behavior
Personality Disorders histrionic personality disorder
excessive emotionality and attention seeking
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
intense interest in being orderly, achieving perfection, and having control
dependent personality disorder
pattern of being submissive and clingy because of an excessive need to be taken care of