Obsessive Compulsive Personalities

A personality disorder that is characterized by the tendency to be overly inhibited, overly conscientious, and to rigidly adhere to certain standards or values. The individual's personal, social or occupational functioning is substantially impaired by a restricted ability to express warm and tender emotions; perfectionism that interferes with their ability to appreciate what they do achieve and focus on the gestalt of the task instead of each detail; insistence that others submit to their way of doing things and a lack of awareness of the feelings elicited by this behavior; excessive devotion to work and productivity to the exclusion of pleasure and the value of personal relations; and/or indecisiveness in that decision making is avoided, postponed or protracted, perhaps because of an inordinate fear of a mistake.