Personality Disorders: Differential Diagnoses & Workup

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Further Reading

Keywords

character disorder, sociopathy, sociopath, psychopathy, hysteria, paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder

obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, OCD, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory,MMPI, psychiatric disorder, mood disorder, substance abuse, suicide, alcoholism, delusionaldisorder, schizophrenia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, somatization disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, social phobia

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