dissocial personality disorder

Synonyms Paranoid personality disorder, Schizoid personality disorder, Dissocial personality disorder, Emotionally unstable personality disorder, Histrionic personality disorder, Anancastic (obsessive-compulsive) personality disorder, Anxiety-preventing personality disorder, Asthenic (dependent) personality disorder Summary The term “personality disorder” covers a wide spectrum of quite different disorders, which are characterized by the particularly extreme manifestation of certain character traits or “peculiarities”. … Personality disorder

Different types of personality disorder In the classification of the World Health Organization (WHO), the following disorders are highlighted within the personality disorders in the narrower sense: It is already noticeable from the above list that there are areas of overlap between the individual personality disorders. Occasionally personality disorders are therefore assigned to symptom-oriented superordinate … Different types of personality disorder | Personality disorder

Frequency The frequency of personality disorders is stated as 6-23%, a certain number of unreported cases is not unlikely due to the difficulty of grasping them. The most common personality disorders include dependent, dissocial, histrionic and borderline personality disorders. The gender distribution is different for the different types of personality disorders. Cause The cause for … Frequency | Personality disorder