Psychoanalytic Diagnosis 6- Symptoms Continued

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disorders may lead to painful symptoms. The personality disorders of the PDM are as follows: Neurotic level personality disorders include obsessive compulsive, hysterical, avoidant and dependent. Borderline level personality disorders are paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial( psychopath), narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline proper. (The Psychotic level disorders are not really considered personality disorders because they are less caused by childhood experiences and are more determined by inherited and genetically based brain disorders.)