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Compulsive Personality Disorder

Medical Definition: A personality disorder characterized by an emotionally constricted manner that is unduly conventional, serious, formal, and stingy, by preoccupation with trivial details, rules, order, organization, schedules, and lists, by stubborn insistence on having things one's own way without regard for the effects on others, by excessive devotion to work and productivity to the detriment of interpersonal relationships, and by indecisiveness due to fear of making mistakes. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Also Called: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality,Compulsive Personality

Compulsive Personality Disorder Medical Definitions and Terms

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