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Abstract
A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. (From DSM-IV, 1994)
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- Passive-Dependent Personality
- Personality Disorder, Dependent
- Dependent Personality Disorders
- Disorder, Dependent Personality
- Passive Dependent Personality
- Personality, Passive-Dependent
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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91(81); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-90; was PASSIVE-DEPENDENT PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1975-80
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WM 190.5.D3
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Dependent Personality Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003859. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003859
- Dependent Personality Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_personality_disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320719