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Mental Disorders > Personality Disorders > Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

Preferred term

Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder  

Type

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Definition

  • A personality disorder characterized by an indirect resistance to demands for adequate social and occupational performance; anger and opposition to authority and the expectations of others that is expressed covertly by obstructionism, procrastination, stubbornness, dawdling, forgetfulness, and intentional inefficiency. (Dorland, 27th ed)

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Entry terms

  • Negativistic Personality Disorder
  • Passive-Aggressive Personality
  • Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders
  • Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive
  • Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive

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