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(character neurosis)
- A personality disorder manifested by a chronic, habitual, maladaptive pattern
of reaction that is relatively inflexible, limits the optimal use of
potentialities, and often provokes the responses from the environment that the
person wants to avoid. In contrast to symptoms of neurosis, character traits are
typically ego-syntonic.
- The old term for personality disorder.
Source: Davidson, Gerald C. and John M. Neale. 1994. Abnormal Psychology,
6th Edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons
See also personality.
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