Disorders
Cluster B Personality Disorders
The DSM-IV-TR (2000) defines a personality disorder as: “An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations the individuals culture (and is manifes...
Axes of Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are like hints of icebergs. They rest on a basis of interactions and impacts, causes and events, emotions and cognitions, functions and dysfunctions that together form the patien...
Common Features of Personality Disorders
Psychology is much more an art form than a science. There is no”Theory of Everything” from which you can derive all mental health phenomena and make falsifiable predictions. Still, so far ...
Diagnosing Personality Disorders
Character traits are enduring, usually inflexible patterns of behaviour, thinking (cognition), and emoting expressed in a variety of circumstances and scenarios and throughout one’s lifetime (ty...