Cluster Personality Types

Cluster A: Odd or Eccentric Disorders

  • Paranoid Personality Disorder: a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent

  • Schizoid Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal relationships

  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with reduced capacity for close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior

Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Disorders

  • Antisocial Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others

  • Borderline Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affects, and control over impulses

  • Histrionic Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of excessive emotion and attention-seeking

  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy

Cluster C: Anxious or Fearful Disorders

  • Avoidant Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hyper-sensuality to negative evaluation

  • Dependent Personality Disorder: a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of, which leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency


Personality Disorder’s Main Beliefs

  • Paranoid: I cannot trust people

  • Schizotypal: It’s better to be isolated from others

  • Schizoid: Relationships are messy, undesirable

  • Histrionic: People are there to serve or admire me

  • Narcissistic: Since I am special, I deserve special rules

  • Borderline: I deserve to be punished

  • Antisocial: I am entitled to break rules

  • Avoidant: If people knew the “real” me, they would reject me

  • Dependent: I need people to survive, be happy

  • Obsessive-compulsive: People should do better, try harder