Earlier this year, I published an article in Psychiatric Times with the psychiatrist Joel Paris, M.D., commenting on the concept of complex posttraumatic stress disorder and its relationship to ...

In a world that breezes by at the speed of a lightning-fast Wi-Fi connection, nuances often blur, and complexities can either be celebrated or overlooked. High-functioning personality disorders are ...

Schizophrenia involves periods of psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking that distort a person’s sense of reality. Schizoid personality disorder is a long-standing ...

HAMBURG — What is “normal” and what isn’t? This question is constantly being renegotiated in psychology. And sometimes, the boundaries shift, as they are now. What is considered a personality disorder ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyD, MPH Key Takeaways BPD affects mood, relationships, and how people see ...

Schizoid and paranoid personality disorders have key differences. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) leads people to think that others are trying to harm them, while schizoid personality disorder ...

Everyone's diagnosing everyone with narcissism on the thinnest of criteria these days, but it turns out there is one way to detect a potential personality disorder in a person: their speech patterns.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often goes unnoticed. Its subtle symptoms can weave into the fabric of everyday life, ...

K N O X V I L L E, Tenn., May 1 -- — Police heard the confession on tape: A man said he raped and strangled a woman. After that, "I throwed her down and left her lying there," said the loud and angry ...