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Types of personality disorders
Cluster A
Cluster B
Cluster C
Cluster A
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Distrust and suspiciousness of others
- Others are exploiting, harming or deceiving them
- Preoccupied
- Reluctant to confide and trust others
- Reads threatening meaning into benign remarks
- Bears grudges
- Suspicions without justification on partner
Schizoid personality disorder
A pervasive pattern of detachment from relationships and a restricted range of emotions
- No close relationships
- Solidarity
- Takes pleasure in few things
- Emotional coldness
Schizotaypal personality disorder
Social and interpersonal deficits, with reduced capacity for close relationships as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour
- Odd beliefs of magical thinking that influences behaviour
- Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
- Odd thinking and speech
- Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
- Odd appearance and behaviour
- Lack of close friends
- Social anxiety
Cluster B personality disorders
Antisocial personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
Pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others
- Failure to conform to social norms
- Deceitful
- Impulsive
- Irritable and aggressive
- Reckless
- Irresponsible
- Lack of remorse
Borderline personality disorder
Instability of relationships, self-image, and affects, marked impulsivity
- Efforts to avoid abandonment
- Unstable relationships alternating between extremes
- Identity disturbances
- Impulsive
- Suicidal behaviour/self harm
- Chronic feeling of emptiness
- Inappropriate anger
- Dissociative symptoms
Narcissistic personality disorder
Grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy
- Grandiose self-importance
- Fantisies of unlimited success
- “Special”
- Entitlement
Histrionic personality disorder
Excessive emotionality and attention seeking
- Uncomfortable in situations where they are not the centre of attention
- Inappropriate interactions with others
- Shallow expression of emotions
- Speech that lacks detail
- Dramatisation
- Is suggestible
Cluster C personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Dependant personality disorder
Dependant personality disorder
Need to be taken care of, leads to submissive and clinging behaviour
- Difficulty making decisions
- Needs others to assume responsibility
- Difficulty expressing disagreement
- Needs support from others
- Feels uncomfortable alone
- Seeks relationships
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Orderliness, perfectionism and mental and interpersonal control
- Preoccupied with details
- Shows perfectionism
- Devoted to work
- Overconscientious and inflexible
- Unable to discard objects
- Reluctant to delegate
- Shows rigidity and stubbornness
Avoidant personality disorder
Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
- Avoids interpersonal contact due to fears of criticism, rejection and disapproval
- Shows restraint in relationships
- Preoccupied with being criticised or rejected
- Views self as socially inept, unappealing or inferior to others
- Reluctant to take risks or engage in any new activities
