DESCRIBE AND DISCUSS THE DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEFINITION AND DIAGNOSIS OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS.

Describe and discuss the difficulties associated with the definition and diagnosis of personality disorders.

Describe and discuss the difficulties associated with the definition and diagnosis of personality disorders (Fuller, 2006).

Introduction

Personality disorders previously terms as character disorders. These are a set of character types and behaviors that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) defines as "a continuing model of internal knowledge and performance that deviates noticeably from the prospect of the society of the person who exhibits it" (Fuller, 2006).

Discussion

These behavioral patterns in character disorders are classically connected with strict instability ...