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Compulsive Personality Disorder

"Compulsive Personality Disorder" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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 poor interpersonal relationships, and by indecisiveness due to fear of making mistakes.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Compulsive Personality Disorder" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Compulsive Personality Disorder" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2002 and 2017
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.