Dependent Personality Disorder A lack of self-confidence coupled with excessive dependence on others. Persons affected by dependent personality disorder have a disproportionately low level of confidence in their own intelligence and abilities and have...

Personal dependency is the tendency to seek support, security, reassurance, and guidance from outside the self. The object of dependency may be another person, a social unit (e.g., family, a religious group), or a symbolic belief system from which...

Dependent personality disorder (DPD), formerly known as asthenic personality disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people. The difference between a 'dependent personality' and a...

Abstract: The prevalence of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in treatment-seeking Turkish substance dependent patients and the relationship of ASPD with clinical characteristics were studied. Participants were 132 inpatients with substance dependence according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I), Turkish version. The clinician...

This book is far more comprehensive than its title indicates and covers several additional topics related to substance misuse and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), including history of both disorders, epidemiology and etiology of both disorders, general information on psychotherapy and research on treatment...

A woman convicted of hiring her lover to kill her husband is submissive and easily manipulated and has a disorder that could lead her to act against her own best judgment, a psychologist testified.Psychologist Robert Kaplan testified Tuesday about Donna Moonda's mental state in the...

A woman convicted of hiring her lover to kill her Indian doctor husband two years ago suffers from visions of her husband's bloody face, a psychologist testified Tuesday during a hearing to determine whether she should be sentenced to death.Psychologist Robert Kaplan told jurors in...