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Anankastic personality disorder
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ICD-10 equivalent of DSM-5’s obsessive-compulsive personality disorder; “anankastic” derives from the Greek word anankastikos, which means “compulsion.”
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Antisocial personality disorder (APD)
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DSM-5 diagnosis describing people who consistently violate the rights of others; in addition to being deceitful, disregarding social norms, and often breaking the law, people with APD are reckless, irresponsible, and (in some cases) violent as they manipulate and exploit others.
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Anxious (avoidant) personality disorder
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ICD-10 equivalent of DSM-5’s avoidant personality disorder.
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Avoidant personality disorder
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DSM-5 diagnosis for those who actively avoid social interactions because they are excessively worried about being criticized or rejected; these individuals want guaranteed acceptance from others.
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Borderline families
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Families characterized by interpersonal chaos in which family members don’t know how to nurture or support one another; three kinds of borderline families: enmeshed or overinvolved, alienated or rejecting, and idealizing or denying.
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
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DSM-5 diagnosis describing people who show instability in their relationships, sense of self, and emotions; BPD clients have a difficult time regulating their own emotions and their feelings about self and others often shift rapidly.
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Character
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Unique patterns of adaptive behavior that are relatively constant and enduring; sometimes used as a synonym for personality, but also defined independently of it.
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Cluster A
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Odd or eccentric personality disorders (paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal).
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Cluster B
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Dramatic, emotional, or erratic personality disorders (antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic).
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Cluster C
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Anxious or fearful personality disorders (avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive).
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Dependent personality disorder
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DSM-5 and ICD-10 disorder describing those who desperately want to be cared for; lacking confidence in their own abilities, they regularly seek advice and reassurance from those around them.
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Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
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CBT-influenced approach developed for borderline personality disorder that combines CBT skill-training with an emphasis on dialectics.
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Dialectics
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The rational process of reconciling opposites; important in dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder, in which patients often struggle to integrate conflicting thoughts and feelings.
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Difficult process
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Humanistic term that reframes psychological abnormality in a non-pathologizing and anti-diagnostic way; psychological problems are not attributed to mental disorder, but to a failure to receive the necessary and sufficient core conditions for self-actualization due to problems in early attachment relationships.
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Dissocial personality disorder
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ICD-10 equivalent of antisocial personality disorder.
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