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Short definition of a personality disorder: A personality disorder is a personality trait that is pervasive and intrusive and leads to distress and impairment.
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Written by: Martin Winkler
First version:
22 Jul 2008.
Latest revision:
31 Jul 2008.
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What is a personality Disorder? How is personality disorder different from other mental disorders? Give a list of personality disorders.
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Personality disorders are mental disorder with inflexible, enduring, maladaptive patterns of adjustment to life that cause either subjective distress or significant impairment of adaptive functioning.
The DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association) defines a personality disorder as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that
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deviates markedly from the expectation of the individual's culture,
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is pervasive and inflexible,
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has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood,
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is stable over time, and
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leads to distress or impairment.
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