What does Cluster B personality traits mean?

Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

Is psychopathy a Cluster B disorder?

Summary. ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR diagnostic guidelines do not list psychopathy as a distinct psychiatric entity. However, there are significant overlaps between psychopathy and DSM-IV-TR Cluster B personality disorders.

Can Cluster B personality disorders overlap?

Classifying Cluster B Disorders These tend to be the least common disorders but are often the most challenging to treat. As with any other number of personality and mood disorders, conditions can overlap and coexist, requiring different approaches to treatment and care.

Can borderline personality disorder lead to a transient sociopath?

At the same time, when the borderline personality’s rage or desperation is evoked, one sees (and not rarely) responses that can closely correspond to the sociopath’s calculating, destructive mentality. Once inside this mentality, I’m suggesting that borderline personality-disordered individuals can lapse into a kind of transient sociopathy.

What is a sociopathic mentality?

Sociopathy is a mentality from which antisocial, exploitative behaviors gestate and emanate with a destructive, historical chronicity. But one can infer the presence of the sociopathic mentality from a telling pattern of behaviors.

Can borderline personality disorder be a match for narcissism?

Borderlines can be very manipulative themselves, but because their personality is less integrated and and the narcissist appears to have an integrated self (even though it’s a false one), they are no match for a narcissist.

What are the clusters of personality disorders?

Cluster B is called the dramatic, emotional, and erratic cluster. It includes: Borderline Personality Disorder. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Histrionic Personality Disorder. Antisocial Personality Disorder. Disorders in this cluster share problems with impulse control and emotional regulation.