Characteristics
A pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others, criminality, impulsivity, and a failure to learn from experience.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
These traits distinguish borderline personality disorder from histrionic personality disorder.
What is self-destructiveness, anger in close relationships, and chronic emptiness and loneliness?
The paranoid, schizotypal, and schizoid personality disorders are part of this cluster.
What is Cluster A?
An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that is pervasive and inflexible.
What is a Personality Disorder?
A pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A pattern of submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of.
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
The type of commitment to perfectionism that differentiates obsessive-compulsive from narcissistic personality disorder.
What is order and rigidity?
Cluster C is defined by these hyphenated adjectives in the DSM-5-TR.
What is Anxious-Fearful?
Presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a personality disorder are present but there is insufficient information to make a more specific diagnosis.
What is Unspecified Personality Disorder?
A pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
A pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This trait distinguishes the way of dealing with a need for reassurance experienced by dependent but not avoidant personality disorders.
What is seeking and maintaining relationships?
Cluster B is defined by these hyphenated adjectives in the DSM-5-TR.
What is Dramatic-Emotional?
A persistent personality disturbance that is judged to be the direct pathophysiological consequence of another medical condition (e.g., frontal lobe lesion).
What is Personality Change Due to Another Medical Condition?
A pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
A pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
These traits are present in Schizotypal PD but not in Schizoid PD.
What is odd, eccentric, paranoid, or magical beliefs?
The antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders are part of this cluster.
What is Cluster B?
The minimal age for personality disorders diagnosis, where features are present for at least 1 year (doesn't include antisocial).
What is 18?
A pattern of acute discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This trait would distinguish social anxiety in Paranoid Personality Disorder from social anxiety in Antisocial Personality Disorder.
What is mistrust or suspicion of others?
The dependent, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders are part of this cluster
What is Cluster C?
Multiple interviews over multiple points in time, with other sources to corroborate full clinical picture.
What is diagnostic process?
A pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that others’ motives are interpreted as malevolent.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?