This post describes the results of an empirical study I did on the personality disorders when I was working in A. T. Beck’s lab back in 2002. We presented it as a poster at the APA convention that ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the United States of America conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on personality traits to identify ...

A new study has found that people who have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are three times more likely to also have a personality disorder. “Finding an increased prevalence of personality disorders ...

Personality traits like neuroticism and introversion may be linked to depression, according to a new study that explores the relationship between personality and common mental health problems.

In this paper we found it necessary to understand first our interviewees' lived experiences of personality disorders as the context of our enquiry; to explore understandings of recovery from the ...

Results of a retrospective study conducted in Spain found that dialectical-behavioral therapy skills training can help mitigate polypharmacy in those with borderline personality disorder. New study ...

While NPD and HPD do share some characteristics, the full extent of symptoms are very different. Treatment for both often includes professional support and medications. Our personalities define a ...

Schizoid and paranoid personality disorders have key differences. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) leads people to think that others are trying to harm them, while schizoid personality disorder ...

Everyone’s personality is different. Your personality is how you think and feel, but it also includes how you behave and relate to things. Sometimes, you begin to feel or behave differently toward ...