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Definition

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is characterized by perfectionism and inflexibility. A person with a Obsessive-Compulsive Personality becomes preoccupied with uncontrollable patterns of thought and action. Symptoms may cause extreme distress and interfere with a person's occupational and social functioning.

ONSET:  Early adulthood and with a variety of contexts.

SEE: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ( OCD )

Diagnostic Criteria - Mental Health made easy.

Marked  inflexibility and preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental / interpersonal control, as indicated by at least four of the following:

1. Marked preoccupation with details, lists, order, organization, rules, or schedules.
2. Marked perfectionism that interferes with the completion of the task.
3. Excessive devotion to work.
4. Excessive devotion and inflexible when it comes to ethics, morals, or values.
5. Can not throw out worn-out, useless, or worthless objects, with no sentimental value.
6. Insist others work or do task exactly as they would.
7. View money as something to hoarded.
8. Stubborn and rigid.

Treatment ( Psychotherapy )

Adlerian Therapy
Behavior Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy
Existential Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Person-centered Therapy
Psychoanalytic
Rational-emotive Therapy
Reality Therapy
Transactional Analysis

Treatment ( Pharmacotherapy )

Anafranil
Luvox
Paxil