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Personality
Personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual, their unique and enduring pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that is characteristic of a given individual. TERM 2
Personality disorder
DEFINITION 2 Personality disorders, formerly referred to as character disorders, are a class of personality types and behaviors, a pervasive, enduring, and inflexible pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of a person's culture and leads to distress or impairment. TERM 3
Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
DEFINITION 3 This cluster of "odd" personality disorders consists of the paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Typical behavior displayed is extreme suspiciousness, social withdrawal, and cognitive and perceptual peculiarities. TERM 4
Paranoid personality disorder
DEFINITION 4 Paranoid personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. TERM 5
Schizoid personality disorder
DEFINITION 5 Schizoid personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness and sometimes (sexual) apathy, with a simultaneous rich, elaborate and exclusively internal fantasy world.
Schizotypal personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder, or simply schizotypal disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs. TERM 7
Ideas of reference
DEFINITION 7 People with certain disorders who believe that unrelated events pertain to them in some important way. TERM 8
Antisocial personality disorder
DEFINITION 8 Antisocial personality disorder is described by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV-TR), as an Axis II personality disorder characterized by "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood." TERM 9
Psychopathy
DEFINITION 9 Psychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. TERM 10
Sociopathy
DEFINITION 10 Sociopathy is a loosely-defined term that may be used to refer to: antisocial personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of other people's rights.
Dependent personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder, formerly known as asthenic personality disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people. TERM 17
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
DEFINITION 17 Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency. TERM 18
Passive-aggressive personality disorder
DEFINITION 18 Passive-aggressive behavior, a personality trait, is passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations. TERM 19
Ego syntonic
DEFINITION 19 Egosyntonic is a psychological term referring to behaviors, values, feelings that are in harmony with or acceptable to the needs and goals of the ego, or consistent with one's ideal self-image. TERM 20
splitting
DEFINITION 20 Splitting (also called all-or-nothing thinking in cognitive distortion) may mean two things: splitting of the mind, and splitting of mental concepts (or black and white thinking).
Impulse control disorders
Impulse control disorder is a set of psychiatric disorders including intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, pathological gambling, pyromania, and three body-focused repetitive or compulsive behaviors of trichotillomania (a compulsion to pull one's hair out), onychophagia (compulsive nail biting) and dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking). TERM 22
Pathological gambling
DEFINITION 22 Problem gambling is an urge to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. TERM 23
Kleptomania
DEFINITION 23 Kleptomania is an irresistible urge to steal items of trivial value. TERM 24
Trichotillomania
DEFINITION 24 Trichotillomania, which is classified as an impulse control disorder by DSM-IV, is the compulsive urge to pull out one's own hair leading to noticeable hair loss, distress, and social or functional impairment. TERM 25
Psychoactive substances
DEFINITION 25 A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that crosses the blood-brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior.
