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Mental Disorders > Personality Disorders > Compulsive Personality Disorder

Preferred term

Compulsive Personality Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Personality Disorder, Compulsive

Note

  • OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER is also available

Scope note

  • Disorder characterized by an emotionally constricted manner that is unduly conventional, serious, formal, and stingy, by preoccupation with trivial details, rules, order, organization, schedules, and lists, by stubborn insistence on having things one's own way without regard for the effects on others, by poor interpersonal relationships, and by indecisiveness due to fear of making mistakes.

History note

  • 91(81); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-90; was OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1975-80 & see under COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR 1969-74

In other languages

  • vaativa persoonallisuus

    Finnish

  • anankastinen persoonallisuus
  • anankastisk personlighetsstörning
  • kompulsiivinen persoonallisuus
  • obsessiivinen persoonallisuus
  • obsessiivis-kompulsiivinen persoonallisuus
  • personalitas anancastica
  • personalitas compulsiva
  • personalitas obsessiva
  • personalitas obsessiva et compulsiva
  • personlighetsstörning kompulsiv
  • personlighetsstörning obsessiv
  • personlighetsstörning obsessiv-kompulsiv
  • Tvångsbeteende, personlighetsstörning

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003193

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