Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (definition)

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ψ	Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

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Definition: A personality disorder characterized by an indirect resistance to demands for adequate social and occupational performance; anger and opposition to authority and the expectations of others that is expressed covertly by obstructionism, procrastination, stubbornness, dawdling, forgetfulness, and intentional inefficiency. (Dorland, 27th ed)

Other names Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive; Negativistic Personality Disorder; Personality, Passive-Aggressive; Personality Disorders, Passive-Aggressive; Personality Disorders, Negativistic; Personality Disorder, Passive Aggressive; Personality Disorder, Negativistic; Personalities, Passive-Aggressive; Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorders; Passive-Aggressive Personalities; Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder; Passive Aggressive Personality; Negativistic Personality Disorders; Disorders, Passive-Aggressive Personality; Disorders, Negativistic Personality; Disorder, Passive-Aggressive Personality; Disorder, Negativistic Personality; Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive; Passive-Aggressive Personality; Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders

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