personality disorder

English

Etymology

personality +‎ disorder

Noun

personality disorder (plural personality disorders)

1. (psychiatry) Any of a class of mental disorders characterized by ongoing rigid patterns of thought and action.
   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136:

     They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• 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)

• Czech: porucha osobnosti f
• Danish: personlighedsforstyrrelse, personlighedsstruktur
• Dutch: persoonlijkheidsstoornis (nl) f
• Finnish: persoonallisuushäiriö (fi)
• French: trouble de la personnalité (fr) m
• Galician: trastorno da personalidade
• German: Persönlichkeitsstörung f
• Hungarian: személyiségzavar (hu)
• 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 m pl
• Maori: mate haukiri
• Polish: zaburzenie osobowości n
• Portuguese: transtorno de personalidade m
• Romanian: tulburare de personalitate f
• Russian: расстро́йство ли́чности (ru) n (rasstrójstvo líčnosti), ли́чностное расстро́йство n (líčnostnoje rasstrójstvo)
• Spanish: trastorno de la personalidad m
• Swedish: personlighetsstörning (sv) c
• Turkish: kişilik bozukluğu (tr), şahsiyet bozukluğu
• Ukrainian: ро́злад особи́стості m (rózlad osobýstosti)
• Vietnamese: rối loạn nhân cách

See also

• mental disorder

Further reading

• personality disorder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia