personality disorder

English

Noun

personality disorder (plural personality disorders)

1. (psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.
   • 1987, Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices (fiction), page 442:

     Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them. It would be far less difficult to eradicate Diane's giant rose tattoo than it would be to change her perception of herself and others.

Hyponyms

• antisocial personality disorder
• avoidant personality disorder
• borderline personality disorder
• dependent personality disorder
• depressive personality disorder
• haltlose personality disorder
• histrionic personality disorder
• narcissistic personality disorder
• obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
• paranoid personality disorder
• passive-aggressive personality disorder
• sadistic personality disorder
• schizoid personality disorder
• schizotypal personality disorder
• self-defeating personality disorder

 

Translations

class of mental disorders

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人格障礙／人格障碍 (réngé zhàng'ài), 人格障碍 (réngé zhàng'ài)

• Czech: porucha osobnosti f
• Danish: personlighedsforstyrrelse, personlighedsstruktur
• Finnish: persoonallisuushäiriö (fi)
• French: trouble de la personnalité (fr) m
• German: Persönlichkeitsstörung f
• Hungarian: személyiségzavar (hu)
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• Italian: disturbo di personalità m
• Japanese: パーソナリティ障害 (pāsonariti shōgai), 人格障害 (jinkaku shōgai), 性格障害 (seikaku shōgai)
• Khmer: វិបល្លាសបុគ្គលិកលក្ខណៈ (vi’pallaah bokkea’lɨk leakkʰa’na’)
• Latvian: personības traucējumi
• Portuguese: transtorno de personalidade m
• Russian: расстро́йство ли́чности (ru) n (rasstrójstvo líčnosti), ли́чностное расстро́йство n (líčnostnoje rasstrójstvo)
• Spanish: trastorno de la personalidad m
• Turkish: kişilik bozukluğu, şahsiyet bozukluğu

See also

• mental disorder

Further reading

• personality disorder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia