Personality Disorders (Health/Mental_Health)
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Description: The medical and clinical aspects of personalty disorders.Personality Disorders A... personality disorder, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition (DSMIV), is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that differs markedly from the expectations of the individuals culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment. Personality disorders are a longstanding and maladaptive pattern of perceiving and responding to other people
Specializes in: personality disorders character disorder sociopathy sociopath psychopathy hysteria paranoid personality disorder schizoid personality disorder... schizotypal personality disorder antisocial personality disorder