DSM-IV-TR General Criteria for a Personality Disorder

Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior deviating markedly
from expectations of individual’s culture
Manifested in two or more of the following areas:
• cognition (ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and
events)
• affectivity (range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional
response)
• interpersonal functioning
• impulse control
Enduring pattern inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal
and social situations
Enduring pattern leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social,
occupational, or other important areas of functioning
Pattern stable and of long duration, and its onset can be traced back at least
to adolescence or early adulthood
Enduring pattern not better accounted for as manifestation or consequence
of another mental disorder
Enduring pattern not due to direct physiological effects of a substance or
general medical condition
DSM-IV-TR personality disorders:
• Cluster A: Paranoid; Schizoid; Schizotypal
• Cluster B: Antisocial; Borderline; Histrionic; Narcissistic
• Cluster C: Avoidant; Dependent; Obsessive-Compulsive