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DSM-5 Schizoid Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted
range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, indicated by 4 more
more of the
following:
1. Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
2. Almost always chooses solitary activities
3. Has little, in any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
4. Takes pleasures in few, if any, activities
5. Lacks close friends or confidants other than first degree relatives
6. Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
7. Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity
,DSM-5 Schizotypal Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute
discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by
cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning
by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 or
more of the following:
1. Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is
inconsistent with subcultural norms
3. Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
4. Odd thinking and speech
5. Suspicousness or paranoid ideation
6. Inappropriate or constricted affect
7. Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric or peculiar
8. Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
9. Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and
tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative
judgments about self
DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others,
occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three or more of the following:
1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as
indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning
others for personal profit or pleasure
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or
assaults
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility
,DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and
affects, and marked impulsivity as indicated by five or more of the following:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
2. A pattern of unstable and intense relationships characterized by
alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. Identify disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of
self
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g.
spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
7. Chronic feeligns of emptiness
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
DSM-5 Histrionic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by
early
adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 or more of the
following:
1. Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
2. Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually
seductive or provocative behavior
3. Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
4. Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
5. Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
6. Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
7. is suggestible
8. Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
, DSM-5: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy as
indicated by 5 or more of the following:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty,
or ideal love
3. Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be
understood by, or should associate with, other special and high-status
people
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Is interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings
and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
DSM-5 Avoidant Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity
to negative evaluation as indicated by 4 or more of the following
1. Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact
because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection
2. Is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
3. Shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being
shamed or ridiculed
4. Is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations
5. Is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy
6. Views self as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others
7. Is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities
because they may prove embarrassing.
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DSM-5 Schizoid Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted
range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, indicated by 4 more
more of the
following:
1. Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
2. Almost always chooses solitary activities
3. Has little, in any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
4. Takes pleasures in few, if any, activities
5. Lacks close friends or confidants other than first degree relatives
6. Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
7. Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity
,DSM-5 Schizotypal Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute
discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by
cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning
by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 or
more of the following:
1. Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is
inconsistent with subcultural norms
3. Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
4. Odd thinking and speech
5. Suspicousness or paranoid ideation
6. Inappropriate or constricted affect
7. Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric or peculiar
8. Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
9. Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and
tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative
judgments about self
DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others,
occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three or more of the following:
1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as
indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning
others for personal profit or pleasure
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or
assaults
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility
,DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and
affects, and marked impulsivity as indicated by five or more of the following:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
2. A pattern of unstable and intense relationships characterized by
alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. Identify disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of
self
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g.
spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood
7. Chronic feeligns of emptiness
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
DSM-5 Histrionic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by
early
adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by 5 or more of the
following:
1. Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
2. Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually
seductive or provocative behavior
3. Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
4. Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
5. Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
6. Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
7. is suggestible
8. Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
, DSM-5: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy as
indicated by 5 or more of the following:
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty,
or ideal love
3. Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be
understood by, or should associate with, other special and high-status
people
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Has a sense of entitlement
6. Is interpersonally exploitative
7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings
and needs of others
8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
DSM-5 Avoidant Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity
to negative evaluation as indicated by 4 or more of the following
1. Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact
because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection
2. Is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
3. Shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being
shamed or ridiculed
4. Is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations
5. Is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy
6. Views self as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others
7. Is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities
because they may prove embarrassing.
