Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Key Takeaways People with schizoid personality disorder often show little emotion and ...

Schizotypal personality disorder is a cluster A personality disorder that involves various symptoms. These symptoms include difficulty in relationships, atypical thinking and behavior, and a distorted ...

Personality refers to a relatively stable set of tendencies in behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns, which together constitute a person’s unique character. One person may, for instance, be ...

Many psychiatric terms have become part of the popular lexicon. Terms such as “bipolar” and “OCD” are thrown around to describe a moody family member or an organized friend. Other examples: “manic,” ...

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Most research on the romantic relationships of people with personality disorders has focused on the difficulties these individuals face in their relationships. For example, studies have shown that ...

HAMBURG — What is “normal” and what isn’t? This question is constantly being renegotiated in psychology. And sometimes, the boundaries shift, as they are now. What is considered a personality disorder ...

One of the unfortunate things about the current state of personality disorder diagnosis is that there are too many different competing systems. Each system is more or less internally consistent, but ...

Perhaps the most promising work that suggests people with psychopathy can change has been conducted with young people.

There is substantial evidence supporting the effectiveness of longer-term treatments for individuals with personality disorder, and particularly borderline personality disorder.1 Yet, there is a ...