| antisocial behavior | Behavior that violates the rights of others; usually associated with antisocial personality.
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| antisocial personality disorder (APD) | A disorder marked by chronic indifference to and violation of the rights of others.
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| avoidant personality disorder | A disorder in which the individual withdraws from social contact out of fear of rejection.
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| borderline personality disorder | A disorder marked by an unstable sense of self, distrust, impulsive and self-destructive behavior, and difficulty in controlling anger and other emotions.
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| dependent personality disorder | A disorder marked by extreme dependence on others.
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| dialectical behavior therapy | A form of therapy developed to treat borderline personality disorder, integrating acceptance with change.
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| histrionic personality disorder | A disorder involving the exaggerated display of emotion.
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| impulse-control disorder | Patterns of impulsive behavior that seem to exist not as part of another major syndrome but independently. Their essential feature is the inability to resist the impulse to act in ways harmful to oneself or to others.
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| narcissistic personality disorder | A disorder characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, often combined with periodic feelings of inferiority.
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| obsessive-compulsive personality disorder | A disorder marked by excessive preoccupation with trivial details, at the cost of both spontaneity and effectiveness.
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| paranoid personality disorder | A disorder defined by suspiciousness in almost all situations and with almost all people.
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| passive avoidance learning | Learning to stop making certain behavioral responses to stimuli when those responses will result in punishment.
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| personality disorder | An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, that is pervasive and inflexible, that has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, that is stable over time, and that leads to distress or impairment.
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| schizoid personality disorder | A disorder marked by social withdrawal and isolation.
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| schizotypal personality disorder | A disorder marked by odd speech, behavior, thinking, and/or perception.
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