People with dissociative identity disorder develop fractured parts of their identity to cope with trauma, which can cause amnesia and disconnect.

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

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 ...

The last time you were in a bad mood, how did you try to cheer yourself up? Perhaps you were out to dinner with a friend when the thought crossed your mind that you have a stressful day coming up ...

Adam seemed to have a split personality. Most of the time, people thought he was a nice guy, although his temper was a ticking time bomb. He would explode at the drop of the proverbial hat. The ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) categorizes histrionic personality disorder (HPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) into the same cluster of ...

People with borderline personality disorder have a debilitating fear of real or perceived abandonment. Ironically, they often push people away.

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 – ...