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DSM-IV-TR Criteria For Personality Disorder
DSM-IV-TR Criteria For Personality Disorder
DSM-IV-TR Criteria For Personality Disorder
PERSONALITY DISORDER
Disturbances in two or more of the
following must be present:
A. Cognition (thinking about self,
people, and events)
B. Affectivity (range, intensity, lability,
and appropriateness of emotional
response)
C. Interpersonal functioning
D. Impulse control
Cluster A: Odd-Eccentric
Behaviors
Criteria for Paranoid Personality
Disorder
a. Suspicious of others
b. Doubts trustworthiness or loyalty of
friends
and others
c. Fear of confiding with others
d. Suspicious, without justification, of
spouses
or sexual partners
fidelity
e. Interprets remarks as demeaning or
threatening
f. Holds grudges towards others
g. Becomes angry and threatening
when he or she perceives being
attacked by others
Criteria for Schizoid Personality
Disorder
a. Lacks desire for close relationships
or friends
b. Chooses solitary activities
c. Little interest in sexual experiences
d. Avoids activities
e. Appears cold and detached
f. Lacks close friends
g. Appears indifferent to praise or
criticism
Criteria for Schizotypal
Personality Disorder
a. Ideas of reference
b. Magical thinking or odd beliefs
c. Unusual perceptual experiences,
including
bodily illusions