An older term referring to personality disorder manifested by a chronic, habitual, maladaptive pattern of reaction that is relatively inflexible, limits the optimal use of a person’s potential, and often provokes responses from the environment that the person wants to avoid. In contrast to symptoms of Neurosis, symptoms of a character disorder are typically ego-syntonic.
A defect of the personality manifest by immaturity, antisocial reactions, asocial reactions, and unsocial reactions are rarely altered by therapy.
A personality disorder manifested by a chronic, habitual, maladaptive pattern of reaction that is relatively inflexible, limits the optimal use of potentialities, and often provokes the responses from the environment that the individual wants to avoid.