Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

(The Overseer)

Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

  • passively resists fulfilling routine social and occupational tasks;

     

  • complains of being misunderstood and unappreciated by others;

     

  • is sullen and argumentative;

     

  • unreasonably criticizes and scorns authority;

     

  • expresses envy and resentment toward those apparently more fortunate;

     

  • voices exaggerated and persistent complaints of personal misfortune;

     

  • alternates between hostile defiance and contrition.

 

Source: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition

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