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Personality disorders are a type of mental disorder characterized by maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, and are split into three clusters. Cluster B includes antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder.
Cluster A (odd or eccentric): 301.0 Paranoid personality disorder; 301.20 Schizoid personality disorder; 301.22 Schizotypal personality disorder; Cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic): 301.7 Antisocial personality disorder; 301.83 Borderline personality disorder; 301.50 Histrionic personality disorder; 301.81 Narcissistic personality disorder
Passive–aggressive [personality disorder] was listed as an Axis II personality disorder in the DSM-III-R, but was moved in the DSM-IV to Appendix B ("Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study") because of controversy and the need for further research on how to also categorize the behaviors in a future edition. According to DSM-IV ...
For example, in a study published in 2003 titled "The five-factor model and personality disorder empirical literature: A meta-analytic review", [65] the authors analyzed data from 15 other studies to determine how personality disorders are different and similar, respectively, with regard to underlying personality traits. In terms of how ...
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Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.
[49] Personality disorders were placed on axis II along with "mental retardation". [44] The first draft of DSM-III was ready within a year. It introduced many new categories of disorder, while deleting or changing others. A number of unpublished documents discussing and justifying the changes have recently come to light. [62]
Dimensional models are intended to reflect what constitutes personality disorder symptomology according to a spectrum, rather than in a dichotomous way.As a result of this they have been used in three key ways; firstly to try to generate more accurate clinical diagnoses, secondly to develop more effective treatments and thirdly to determine the underlying etiology of disorders.