Personality disorders: illegitimate subject positions.

Survey of Behavior and Personality Disorders in Gender Dysphoria: Case Study

Gender dysphoria is a dissatisfaction. The main characteristics of this disorder include feeling sad, deep dissatisfaction, about sexual biology and gender experienced. People with gender dysphoria believe that they belong to another gender. The present study was conducted to investigate personality traits in the dysfunctional individuals. This study was carried out as a case study. One 49-year...

The efficacy of Brief Object Relations Psychotherapy on major depressive disorder comorbid with cluster C personality

Abstract Background: Personality disorders have essential roles in developing and maintaining depressive episodes, though psychotherapies must approach both symptoms and personality problems. This study examined the efficacy of Brief Object Relations Psychotherapy on depression severity and perceived quality of life of women suffer from major depressive disorder comorbid with cluster C personal...

Historical roots of histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the most ambiguous diagnostic categories in psychiatry. Hysteria is a classical term that includes a wide variety of psychopathological states. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks blamed a displaced womb, for many women's afflictions. Several researchers from the 18th and 19th centuries studied this theme, namely, Charcot who defined hysteria as a "neurosis" w...

Multiple myeloma: illegitimate switch recombinations and their relation to chromosomal translocations.

Resisting persuasion by illegitimate means: a metacognitive perspective on minority influence.

The present research tests a new metacognitive perspective on resistance in minority influence situations. It is proposed that when people initially resist persuasive messages from sources in the numerical minority, they can lose attitude certainty if they perceive that they have based their attitudes on the source's minority status and also believe this is an illegitimate basis for resistance....