{"id":69867,"date":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/clinical-types-of-mental-disorders\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","slug":"clinical-types-of-mental-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/clinical-types-of-mental-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical types of mental disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"

psychotypes distinguished by the predominance of certain traits of the mental makeup of the personality. There are various approaches to their categorization, researchers distinguish:
\n1) cycloid, the main sign is a constant change of mood with cycle fluctuations from hours to months;
\n2) the hyperthymic type is characterized by restlessness, mobility, sociability, a tendency to mischief, restlessness, high spirits, it is characterized by an overestimation of one’s own personality, a craving for companies, sometimes antisocial;
\n3) emotionally labile is characterized by emotional instability, mood can change from an insignificant reason. There is a tendency to emotional crises, which may be accompanied by suicidal threats or acts of self-harm;
\n4) the sensitive type is distinguished by impressionability, craving for intellectual and aesthetic hobbies, worries about their inferiority;
\n5) schizoid, which is characterized by withdrawal from contacts, isolation, secrecy, slight vulnerability, lack of empathy, angularity of movements;
\n6) epileptoid is characterized by extreme irritability with fits of anguish, fear, anger, impatience, stubbornness, touchiness, cruelty, and a tendency to scandals;
\n7) asthenic, which is characterized by increased impressionability, mental excitability, rapid exhaustion, irritability, indecisiveness;
\n8) psychasthenic \u2013 anxious, insecure personalities, prone to constant thoughts, pathological doubts;
\n9) paranoid \u2013 such persons are prone to the formation of super-valuable ideas, stubborn, suspicious, selfish; are characterized by the absence of doubts, self-confidence and inflated self-esteem;
\n10) hysterical \u2013 persons belonging to this type are impressionable, suggestible, egocentric; are characterized by the desire to attract the attention of others, and their assessment of real events is always distorted in a favorable direction for them; in communication, mannered, theatrical;
\n11) unstable (excitable) \u2013 there is a pronounced tendency to act impulsively, without taking into account the consequences, along with instability of mood, increased conflict, weakness of character, lack of deep interests, susceptibility to the influence of others;
\n12) organic \u2013 persons are distinguished by congenital mental limitations, can study well, but are sterile when it is necessary to apply knowledge or show initiative; they know how to “keep themselves in society”, but are banal in their judgments;
\n12) An addicted person perceives himself as helpless and seeks to shift most of the important life decisions to others, is not capable of an independent life. Such persons are passively submissive and uncritical of the actions of the people on whom they depend;<\/x>14) The conforming type is characterized by the dissolution of the personality in others. These persons mimic any environment, therefore, once in a good microsocial team, they can become executive workers, otherwise they show deviant forms of behavior;
\n15) hypochondriacal \u2013 is determined by hypertrophied attention to one’s physical condition, with an overestimation of the severity of existing disorders and painful manifestations in the form of ideas of dominant, obsessive or overvalued nature of hypochondriacal content, the desire for constant additional examinations and treatment by various methods. There is no clear boundary between psychopathies and variants of normal characters. These types of psychopaths normally correspond to natures with a similar characterological makeup, but without pathological (psychopathic) expression. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

psychotypes distinguished by the predominance of certain traits of the mental makeup of the personality. There are various approaches to their categorization, researchers distinguish: 1) cycloid, the main sign is a constant change of mood with cycle fluctuations from hours to months; 2) the hyperthymic type is characterized by restlessness, mobility, sociability, a tendency to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}