Talk:Personality disorder
Psychopathy is actually considered a personality disorder. Personality disorder is no measure of danger to society (consider antisocial personality disorder), more the underlying psychopathology. This is complicated by the ambiguity as to whether some disorders such as schizotypy are primarily personality issues or part of the psychosis spectrum. - Cyclosarin (talk) 04:17, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Cut the following:
- Interestingly, a major change in the definition of Personality Disorder came when Psychiatrists went into Native American, Native African, and eastern communities and found that hearing voices, predicting the future, believing yourself to be capable of physical transformation, and even paranoia were often the result of social expectations and were not, therefore, formally "disorders".
Aside from being unsourced & weirdly capitalised, I'm not quite sure what this is getting at. These beliefs would indeed not be regarded as disorders in societies in which they are common, but we have already defined personality disorders in terms of societal norms further up in the article. I doubt that such a major change in the definition of personality disorders took place in the context this passage is suggesting. Wėąṣėḷőįď
Methinks it is a Weasel
[edit] Isn't this childish?
Am I the only one herein who is annoyed by the juvenile ideological tone of this entry? I'm not put off by deviance from neutrality, mind you--especially when there is wit displayed--but the Limbaugh comment is off the chart. Whatever your criticism of his bombast, he's beyond question a formidable force on the right side of the spectrum. This strikes me as far beyond being merely snarky, even to the point of eroding the credibility of RationalWiki. (Yeah, I admire his broadcasting skills, but I'm NOT ideologically motivated here; I'd say PRECiSELY the same about Limbaugh's talent were I to the right of Himmler or to the left of Trotsky...instead of being a centrist between Reagan and Obama.) JOKERMAN
[edit] Borderline
Are borderlines in control of what they do, as Paul Elam claims; or are their perceptions and the resulting actions the result of subconscious defense mechanisms? Landmartian (talk) 15:14, 16 October 2014 (UTC)