Psychiatry and Psychology

Compulsive Personality Disorder

Disorder characterized by an emotionally constricted manner that is unduly conventional, serious, formal, and stingy, by preoccupation with trivial details, rules, order, organization, schedules, and lists, by stubborn insistence on having things one's own way without regard for the effects on others, by poor interpersonal relationships, and by indecisiveness due to fear of making mistakes.

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Abstract

Disorder characterized by an emotionally constricted manner that is unduly conventional, serious, formal, and stingy, by preoccupation with trivial details, rules, order, organization, schedules, and lists, by stubborn insistence on having things one's own way without regard for the effects on others, by poor interpersonal relationships, and by indecisiveness due to fear of making mistakes.

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Synonyms

14 entry terms
  • Personality Disorder, Compulsive
  • Compulsive Personality Disorders
  • Disorder, Compulsive Personality
  • Disorders, Compulsive Personality
  • Personality Disorders, Compulsive
  • Compulsive Personality
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
  • Compulsive Personalities
  • Obsessive Compulsive Personality
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Personalities
  • Personalities, Compulsive
  • Personalities, Obsessive-Compulsive
  • Personality, Compulsive
  • Personality, Obsessive-Compulsive

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER is also available

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History Note

91(81); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-90; was OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1975-80 & see under COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR 1969-74

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  1. F03w.675w.150w

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NLM Classification

WM 190.5.C5

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Compulsive Personality Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003193. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003193
  2. Compulsive Personality Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder
  3. Compulsive Personality Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231578