Personality disorders may be the best way to understand dictators, autocrats, and bullies, rather than labeling them crazy, mad, psychotic, fanatical, deranged, or demented.

Most of what we know about personality disorders is based on symptom checklists and leaves out the "person." New research ...

A major scientific review reveals a deep knowledge gap in how cognition is affected when schizophrenia and personality disorders occur together.

Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a psychological condition that causes someone to engage in attention-seeking behavior. Some aspects of this condition may cause a person to lie to manipulate ...

Symptoms of ASPD can start in childhood and may include manipulative and reckless behaviors. ASPD often co-occurs with other mental health conditions, which makes it harder to treat. Up to 31% of ...

A study suggests psychiatric disorders can share the same genetic signatures and that they may stem from shared biological ...

A new study by a research team at Université de Montréal highlights a critical lack of knowledge about the cognitive profiles ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...

The therapists are being gaslit by gaslighting—they’re being told that it’s happening, but it’s not. Jonathan Alpert, a therapist in New York and Washington, D.C., told me he saw a couple recently who ...