Terms Related to Sociopathic Personality

• Dependent Personality Disorder

  A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of ...

• Borderline Personality Disorder

  A personality disorder marked by a pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in ...

• Attention Deficit Disorder

  A behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Although most individuals have symptoms ...

• Multiple Personality Disorder

  A dissociative disorder in which the individual adopts two or more distinct personalities. Each personality is a fully integrated and complex unit with memories, behavior ...

• Paranoid Personality Disorder

  A personality disorder characterized by the avoidance of accepting deserved blame and an unwarranted view of others as malevolent. The latter is expressed as suspiciousness, ...

• Schizoid Personality Disorder

  A personality disorder manifested by a profound defect in the ability to form social relationships, no desire for social involvement, and an indifference to praise ...

• Histrionic Personality Disorder

  A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.