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Personality Disorders

 

A personality disorder is a constellation of personality and behavioral traits in which the individual displays patterns of thinking, perceiving, relating to, and interacting with the environment, the self, and other people in ways that are maladaptive and/or inflexible. Typically, this creates conditions which cause distress for the individual and/or people around that individual and in some cases may bring the individual into conflict with other people or with society as a whole.

 

 

Internet Resources

 

Antisocial Personality Disorder (Grohol)

Avoidant Personality Disorder (PsyWeb)

Borderline Personality Disorder

Conduct Disorders

Criminal-Forensic Psychology

Dependent Personality Disorder (Grohol)

Dependent Personality Disorder (PsyWeb)

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Malignant Self-Love

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (PsyWeb)

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders (Mental Help Net)

Psychopathy and the PCL-R (Hare)

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Self-Injury & Self-Harm

 

 

Recommended Reading

 

Andrews, Donald A., & Bonta, James
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct (3rd Edition). Anderson Publishing, 2002

 

Kaysen, Susanna
Girl Interrupted. Vintage Books, 1994

 

Linehan, Marsha M.
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Guilford Press, 1993

 

Mason, Paul T., Kreger, Randi, & Siever, Larry J.
Stop Walking on Eggshells; Coping When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder. New Harbinger, 1998

 

Maser, Jack D., Breiling, James, & Stoff, David M.
Handbook of Antisocial Behavior. John Wiley & Sons, 1997

 

Millon, Theodore, Simonsen, Erik, Birket-Smith, Morton, & Davis, Roger D.
Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior. Guilford Publications, 1998

 

 

 

 

 

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