In the closing days of World War II, as the world struggled to comprehend the magnitude of Nazi atrocities, a young American psychiatrist named Douglas Kelly was given an extraordinary assignment: to ...

Everyone's diagnosing everyone with narcissism on the thinnest of criteria these days, but it turns out there is one way to detect a potential personality disorder in a person: their speech patterns.

Charlotte Entwistle has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Leverhulme Trust. Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s ...

What is histrionic personality disorder? Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a mental health condition that involves an intense, ongoing need to be noticed by others. 1 People with HPD often ...

If You're 'Type B,' You Might Do These 13 Things, Psychologists Say originally appeared on Parade. "Type A" individuals can take up a lot of oxygen for their drive, go-get-'em attitude and perpetual ...

When you think about personality disorders, it’s likely that borderline and antisocial come to mind. These are, after all, the more flamboyant, and the ones most likely to be depicted in the media, ...

Subtypes of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) may include grandiose NPD and vulnerable NPD. Alternatively, people may also refer to “grandiosity” and “vulnerability” in NPD. The term narcissism ...

For the first time since 2001, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its clinical practice guideline on borderline personality disorder (BPD). The new guideline is “quite substantial ...