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Personality Disorders

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Advanced Personality

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Personality traits are one's characteristic manner of thinking, feeling, perceiving, and/or relating to others across a wide range of situations that have been evident since late childhood or adolescence. Personality is the way one normally or typically behaves. It is what we mean when we describe our selves and each other. It includes that which is unique about us and that we share with others.

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Widiger, T.A. (1998). Personality Disorders. In: Barone, D.F., Hersen, M., Van Hasselt, V.B. (eds) Advanced Personality. The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8580-4_14

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