Where mood disorders can cause temporary or fluctuating changes in mood, personality disorders cause symptoms that remain consistent over time and across a range of situations. For example, bipolar ...

Psychologists typically do not diagnose children with personality disorders. This is because their personality is still developing and can change quickly as they grow. However, a child may show early ...

Genetics is just one of several factors thought to influence personality disorder development. Life experiences, family dynamics, coping mechanisms, and social learning may all be contributing factors ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is substantial evidence supporting the effectiveness of longer-term treatments for individuals with personality disorder, and particularly borderline personality disorder.1 Yet, there is a ...

Jayashri Kulkarni receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and educational plus clinical trial grants from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture ...

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.