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 ...

Researchers scoured through thousands of studies into narcissism and found that the personality trait is composed of positive ...

One of the most reliable indicators that narcissistic patterns are fading is consistency across contexts. The person who was ...

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 ...

What looks like bold leadership is insecurity in disguise: loud confidence masking delusional but fragile self-belief, ...

Before you go chalking someone's behavior up to their quirky personality, you may want to consider if something deeper is going on. Many people in older generations grew up believing any form of ...

Dr. Lisa Long is a psychologist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She specializes in forensic and clinical psychological evaluations and is a qualified expert witness and court-appointed evaluator ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many medical terms have evolved or changed over the years to reflect advancements in medical knowledge or to reduce stigma. For example, what was once called consumption is now known to be ...

Personality disorder (PD) discharges occupy a shadow zone in military separations. Unlike disciplinary discharges or those for willful misconduct, PD discharges are cloaked in medical terminology – ...