ships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity.
•Histrionic personality disorder  is a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention
seeking.
•Narcissistic personality disorder  is a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and
lack of empathy.
•Avoidant personality disorder  is a pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy,
and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.
•Dependent personality disorder is a pattern of submissive and clinging behavior re-
lated to an excessive need  to be taken care of.
•Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder  is a pattern of preoccupation with order-
liness, perfectionism, and control.
•Personality change due to another medical condition  is a persistent personality dis-
turbance that is judged to be due to the direct physiological effects of a medical condi-
tion (e.g., frontal lobe lesion).
•Other specified personality disorder and unspecified personality disorder  is a cate-
gory provided for two situations: 1) the individual’s personality pattern meets the gen-
eral criteria for a personality disorder, an d traits of several different personality
disorders are present, but the criteria for any specific pers onality disorder  are not met;