Personality disorders are a class of mental health conditions defined by enduring, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly from cultural expectations and cause distress or impairment in cognition, affect, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control. Onset is typic…
Personality disorders are a class of mental health conditions defined by enduring, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly from cultural expectations and cause distress or impairment in cognition, affect, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control. Onset is typically traceable to adolescence or early adulthood, and the patterns are stable across time and situations rather than episodic. Diagnostic systems group these conditions into clusters reflecting odd or eccentric, dramatic or erratic, and anxious or fearful presentations, while dimensional models increasingly characterize them along continua of personality functioning and pathological traits. Disturbances of identity, self-direction, empathy, and intimacy are core features, and comorbidity with mood, anxiety, trauma-related, and substance-use disorders is common. Treatment relies primarily on structured psychotherapies, with attention to suicide risk and self-harm. Research relevant to this topic spans psychological and neuroimaging assessment of disordered and deviant behavior in young people, cognitive-analytic and short-term dynamic psychotherapy, contextual approaches to suicide prevention, the developmental role of identity and autobiographical memory, and neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD that complicate differential diagnosis. The journal publishes peer-reviewed work on the classification, assessment, course, and psychotherapeutic management of personality disorders.
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