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Definition of Personality disorder
1. Noun. Inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior.
Specialized synonyms: Maladjustment, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathic Personality, Sociopathic Personality, Schizoid, Schizotypal Personality
Definition of Personality disorder
1. Noun. (psychology) A class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Personality disorder
1. General term for a group of behavioural disorder's characterised by usually lifelong, ingrained, maladaptive patterns of deviant behaviour, lifestyle, and social adjustment that are different in quality from psychotic and neurotic symptoms; former designations for individuals with these personality disorder's were psychopath and sociopath. See: antisocial personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personality Disorder
Literary usage of Personality disorder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"Antisocial personality disorder Clinicians should be careful to avoid mislabeling
patients. Although some women may have antisocial personality disorder, ..."
2. Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Sasha Abramsky (2003)
"The multiple traumas cause psychological disorganization and emotional dyscontrol
that look very much like borderline personality disorder. ..."
3. The Science, Treatment, and Prevention of Antisocial Behaviorsby Diana H. Fishbein by Diana H. Fishbein (2004)
"Evidence in an international sample of alcohol-dependent subjects of subgroups
with specific symptom patterns of antisocial personality disorder. ..."
4. Batterer Intervention: Program Approaches & Criminal Justice Strategies by Christine Smith, Kerry Healey, Chris O'Sullivan (1999)
"personality disorders usually mentioned by therapists who work with batterers
are antisocial personality disorder, narcissism, and borderline personality ..."
5. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Clinical presentations of multiple personality disorder. ... The clinical
phenomenology of multiple personality disorder: a review of 100 recent 88. cases. ..."
6. Assessing Psychopathology and Behavior Problems in Persons With Mental (1994)
"These personality disorder types conform to the categories in Section 301 of the
... If no indication of personality disorder arises from this, ..."
7. Somatization Disorder in the Medical Setting by G. Richard Smith, Jr., DIANE Publishing Company (1990)
"Both histrionic personality traits and histrionic personality disorder are
associated with somatization disorder (Lilienfeld et al. ..."
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