The exact cause of personality disorders is unclear. However, genetics, neurological differences, and environmental factors may contribute to the development of these complex mental health conditions.

In this paper we found it necessary to understand first our interviewees' lived experiences of personality disorders as the context of our enquiry; to explore understandings of recovery from the ...

Last week, we explored Avoidant Personality Disorder, examining how fear of rejection and feelings of inadequacy shape ...

Scientists have turned to the metropolitan managment game Cities: Skylines to shed light on the relationship between personality traits and complex problem solving. As part of the study, spotted by ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, John M. Oldham, MD, MS, one of psychiatry's most influential architects of personality disorder theory, traces his ...

Dr. Oldham's contributions have fundamentally reshaped personality disorder classification, moving the field from rigid diagnostic categories toward a more nuanced dimensional system. As former ...

Rates of bipolar disorder diagnoses have been rising for decades, causing concern among experts that the condition is ...

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 ...

I think of schizoid personality disorder as the hidden disorder because most people with it are suffering very quietly. Unless they confide in you that they have this particular set of issues, you are ...

I think of schizoid personality disorder as the hidden disorder because most people with it are suffering very quietly. Unless they confide in you that they have this particular set of issues, you are ...