People with borderline personality disorder have a debilitating fear of real or perceived abandonment. Ironically, they often push people away.

A classic communication theory, the double bind, may offer a unifying explanation for the paradoxes at the core of borderline personality disorder.

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

Schizotypal personality disorder is a cluster A personality disorder that involves various symptoms. These symptoms include difficulty in relationships, atypical thinking and behavior, and a distorted ...

People with the personality disorder have an extreme fear of being left. They use anger to protect from feeling fear, but it can lead to isolation.

Personality disorder is a term used to represent a well-defined collection of signs and symptoms that characterize a particular group of psychologically impaired conditions. These conditions affect 1 ...

Mary Pembleton comes from a background in nursing, yoga and behavioral psychology. A resident of Appalachia, she enjoys hiking, trail running and outdoor adventuring with her kids. As a writer, her ...

Symptoms of ASPD can start in childhood and may include manipulative and reckless behaviors. ASPD often co-occurs with other mental health conditions, which makes it harder to treat. Up to 31% of ...

Most people with NPD have a distorted sense of self and lack empathy. People with NPD might seek relationships mainly to boost their self-esteem. Overt and covert are two main types of narcissistic ...

One of the unfortunate things about the current state of personality disorder diagnosis is that there are too many different competing systems. Each system is more or less internally consistent, but ...