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Neurotic disorders
Published in Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat, MRCPsych Part 1 In a Box, 2019
Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat
Dependent personality disorder: Others make the person’s important decisions. Being alone leads to feelings of helplessness. There is unwillingness to make even reasonable demands. There is a preoccupation with fears of being abandoned by those one is dependent on.
The biological bases of personality
Published in Philip N. Murphy, The Routledge International Handbook of Psychobiology, 2018
Those with a dependent personality disorder display a need to be taken care of. They are submissive and seek reassurance, rarely disagreeing with others and preferring to be told what to do. Those with a dependent personality disorder often have difficulty working independently or making decisions and are vulnerable to abuse or mistreatment.
MRCPsych Paper A1 Mock Examination 2: Answers
Published in Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri, Get Through, 2016
Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger CM Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri
Explanation: The most appropriate diagnosis would be dependent personality disorder. Individuals with dependent personality disorder usually have tremendous fear of being left alone, and their expression of disagreement is limited. They tend to avoid decision making and taking on responsibilities. Their relationship is sought urgently with other relationships’ end. For individuals with dependent personality disorder, they tend to lack self-confidence as well.
Comparing English-Language and Chinese-Language Assessment of DSM-5 Personality Disorders and Interpersonal Problems in Chinese Bilingual Speakers
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2022
Leila Z. Wu, A. Esin Asan, Alexandra L. Halberstadt, Aaron L. Pincus
Moreover, the substantive results are generally consistent with recent meta-analyses (Wilson et al., 2017) examining interpersonal profiles of personality disorders. Prototypicalities of interpersonal profiles generated in the current study for all personality disorders except paranoid and dependent were consistent with meta-analytic profiles. In the current study, paranoid personality disorder did not exhibit a prototypical profile whereas it did in the meta-analysis. In contrast, dependent personality disorder exhibited a prototypical profile in the current study but did not in the meta-analysis. Finally, in both the current study and the meta-analysis, obsessive–compulsive personality disorder did not exhibit a prototypical interpersonal profile. Additionally, angular displacements generated in the current study were generally consistent with the meta-analysis, except for histrionic personality disorder. Histrionic personality disorder exhibited a warm-domineering problems profile in the meta-analysis, whereas its profile reflected warm interpersonal problems in this study. It is possible that histrionic personality symptoms are viewed differently in communal and in individualistic cultures.
Psychotherapy of Dependent Personality Disorder: The Relationship of Patient–Therapist Interactions to Outcome
Published in Psychiatry, 2020
Giorgio E. Maccaferri, Daniela Dunker-Scheuner, Yves De Roten, Jean-Nicolas Despland, Rainer Sachse, Ueli Kramer
Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD) affects between 1% and 5% of the general population (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994, 2013; Dimaggio, Semerari, Carcione, Nicolò, & Procacci, 2007; Loranger, 1996). DPD occurs frequently in psychiatric inpatients (Jackson et al., 1991; Mezzich, Fabrega, & Coffman, 1987; Oldham et al., 1995) and women are more frequently diagnosed with a DPD than men (Bornstein, 1993, 1997; Bornstein, Riggs, Hill, & Calabrese, 1996; Conley, 1980; Jackson et al., 1991; Loranger, 1996). These patients are more subject to depression, eating, somatisation and panic disorders than other personality disorders (Barzega, Maina, Venturello, & Bogetto, 2001; Bienvenu et al., 2009; Coyne & Whiffen, 1995; Overholser, 1996; Rost, Akins, Brown, & Smith, 1992; Tisdale, Pendleton, & Marler, 1990). DPD can be associated with separation anxiety disorder in patients with alcohol and drug abuse (Loas et al., 2002). Chronic physical illnesses (gastrointestinal problems, sleep disturbances) may be observed as co-occurring problems, and could both predispose to, or be the consequence of the disorder (Sachse, Breil, Sachse, & Fasbender, 2013).
Italian Version of the Relationship Profile Test (RPT-I): Temporal Stability, Construct Validity, and Cross-Cultural Comparison
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2022
Emanuela Saveria Gritti, Robert F. Bornstein, Giulio Costantini, Erica Tanne Harris, Baptiste Barbot
Especially in Western societies that favor agentic traits (e.g., hardiness, personal growth initiative, coping self-efficacy; for a review see Weigold & Robitschek, 2011) clinicians and researchers have devoted considerable attention to exploring the maladaptive consequences of excessive interpersonal dependency (Bornstein, 2005; Bornstein & Huprich, 2006). Some researchers have examined interpersonal overdependence through a diagnostic lens, focusing on the DSM-5 category of Dependent Personality Disorder (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition: APA, 2013); others have examined this construct as a trait conceptualized and measured dimensionally (Bornstein, 2005; Tyrer et al., 2013).