personality disorders

When terrorists and people with personality disorders only kill other people only little better off than themselves, is it subliminal that none of them are the scoundrels causing it? When the March For Our Lives activists campaign to stop gun violence, what will their votes actually do? With planned military ...

John Fabian, a forensic and neuropsychologist hired by the defense, said his examination of James D. Worley, coupled with available medical and court records, and family history, formed a diagnostic picture that includes several personality disorders and a dependency on marijuana. Mr. Fabian testified ...

“Psychopathy,” the article goes on, “is the most dangerous of the personality disorders.” Among indicators, the article says, is “a profound lack of remorse for their aggressive actions, both violent and nonviolent, along with a corresponding lack of empathy for their victims. This central psychopathic concept ...

Twin study findings published in The American Journal of Psychiatry indicated that a proportion of the genetic influence underlying DSM-IV personality disorders is not shared with the constructs of those that underlie normative personality. “Similarities in the extent of genetic influences have fueled ...

A team of researchers from the University of Antwerp has found evidence of heavy metal ingestion by wild birds causing changes in their personalities. In their paper published in Science of The Total Environment, the group describes the multiple ways they studied bird behavior near a site known for ...

Mental illnesses are not adjectives, nor are they insults. But people with personality disorders tend to particularly feel the burden of how our semantics stigmatize the mentally ill. People are quick to hurl terms like "schizo," and "narcissist," but there's a knowledge gap when it comes to really understanding ...

There's a “Top 10” list of just about everything these days and as the year comes to an end, it seems that we like to do a “countdown” of just about everything. Well, here's a countdown of personality disorders and some questions to ask yourself if someone you're interested in or who is trying to get close to ...

"From what I've read, what I've heard, what I've seen and experienced so far, people with dark triad personality disorders cannot and will not change," said Perpetua Neo, a doctor of psychology and therapist, in an earlier article for Business Insider. She added that people with these traits — narcissism, Machiavellianism, ...

This includes conditions such as anxiety disorders like spider phobia, social phobia, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, hair-picking, pathological gambling, schizophrenia, dementia, different forms of depression and personality disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder ...

This includes conditions such as anxiety disorders like spider phobia, social phobia, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, hair-picking, pathological gambling, schizophrenia, dementia, different forms of depression and personality disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder ...

Patients with bipolar disorder report a greater number of personality disorders when depressed compared when they are in a euthymic state, according to study findings published in Bipolar Disorders. Investigators administered the Personality Disorder Questionnaire, 4th edition (PDQ4), to outpatients with ...

“These are young men with a troubled psychiatric history and antisocial personality disorders,” said Young. “These men have no empathy or very little concern about anyone other than themselves. They don't really understand compassion or consideration. It's just not an emotion that registers with them.”.

Personality disorders don't have the advantage of a biological test for detection. Rather, patients need to meet five out of nine criteria outlined by psychiatry's bible, the DSM V: an unstable sense of self, volatile relationships, an intense fear of abandonment, impulsive behavior, unstable moods, suicidality, ...

“First and foremost it would be important to understand what personality disorders are, as well as their symptoms and signs. It would also be important to know more about the treatment they are going through, any medication they're on and the places to reach out to, should they require additional help.

Currently, there are rumblings in the mental health field about the negative implications of the term itself, as many consider it misleading and fraught with negative associations. BPD is often undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or treated inappropriately (Porr, 2001). Clinicians may limit the number of BPD patients ...

When people struggle because they do not relate to other people, or when people find them difficult to get along with, those individuals typically get labeled as “broken” — or technically, with having personality disorders. I don't think it's helpful. It's very stigmatizing. It leads others to conclude they have a ...