Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
Avoidance behavior
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Avoidant personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
(
AvPD
), also known as
anxious personality disorder
, is a
Cluster C
personality disorder
recognized in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
handbook as afflicting persons when they display a pattern of
social inhibition
, feelings of inadequacy and
inferiority
,
extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation
, and avoidance of
social interaction
despite a strong desire to be close to others. Individuals afflicted with the disorder tend to describe themselves as uneasy, anxious, lonely, unwanted and isolated from others.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License