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What is a personality disorder?

What is a personality disorder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.
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Do you think every person with a histrionic personality disorder is going to step down from the public eye when their time is up?
The researchers have shown the value of a psychoanalytic approach based in day hospitals for patients with severe personality disorder.
By contrast, in someone with anti-social personality disorder, psychopathy, the disorder is the person, the whole person.
Most personality disorder treatments today include all the myths of childhood inherited from psychoanalytic models of development.
Welner explains that someone with a severe, brief, psychotic reaction, who has borderline personality disorder, might even hallucinate.
People with histrionic personality disorder are constant attention seekers.

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