Personality Disorder List

Personality Disorders Cause, Symptoms, Test, Types, Treatment, Medication, Diagnostic Criteria

In ICD-9, personality disorders were described as follows:

severe disturbances in the personality and behavioural tendencies of the individual; not directly resulting from disease, damage or other insult to the brain, or from another psychiatric disorder. They usually involve several areas of the personality and are nearly always associated with considerable personal distress and social disruption. They are usually manifest since childhood or adolescence and continue throughout adulthood.

ICD-10 has a somewhat different definition in terms of enduring patterns of behaviour, but the ICD-9 definition is more concise and still valuable.

A personality disorder is identified  by a pervasive pattern of experience and behavior that is abnormal with respect to any two of the following:

1. thinking, mood, personal relations,  and
2. the control of impulses.

Those with a personality disorder possess several distinct psychological features including disturbances in self-image; ability to have successful interpersonal relationships; appropriateness of range of emotion, ways of perceiving themselves, others, and the world; and difficulty possessing proper impulse control.

Basics of Personality:

• Individuality and Personality type and traits approaches
• Personality Patterns

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