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This paper explores the signs and symptoms of the following personality disorders: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder, and Dependent Personality Disorder.

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"According to Martin Kantor, abnormal psychology concerns "the study of mental disorders and maladaptive behavior, including neuroses and psychoses, and of normal phenomena that are not completely understood, such as dreams and altered states of consciousness" (1992). As a branch of the study of abnormal psychology, a personality disorder "is a non-psychotic mental illness characterized by enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about oneself and the environment in ways that are maladaptive, being those that go against normal adaptive processes" (Kantor, 1992). An individual affected with a personality disorder often utilizes inflexible behavior patterns in order to fulfill his/her own personal needs and attain self-satisfaction, often at the expense of others and society. These traits mainly result in severe functional impairment and/or subjective distress, usually imagined or brought on by a particular illness."

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