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Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is characterized by a generalized pattern of personality function deterioration (identity and self-direction) and interpersonal functioning deficit (rigid and persistent perfectionism), at the expense of efficiency, flexibility, and opening (American Psychiatric Association [APA] 2013). It was included in the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952 (Diedrich and Voderholzer 2015). It is also one of the ten personality disorders (PD) recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (Hertler 2015). Personality disorders features may present differently across the lifespan because of some maturation process and context changes (Schuster et al. 2013) (See “Mental Disorder”).
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition (DSM-5) (APA 2013) (See “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
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Mendoza-Ruvalcaba, N.M., Von Humboldt, S., García, I.F.D., Flores-Villavicencio, M.E. (2019). Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_79-1
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