Question

By definition _____ are inflexible, maladaptive patterns of thoughts, emotions, behavior, and interpersonal functioning that are stable over time and across situations, and deviate from the expectations of the individual's culture.

Answer 1

Personality Disorder is described as inflexible, maladaptive patterns of thoughts, emotions, behavior, and interpersonal functioning that are stable over time and across situations, and deviate from the expectations of the individual's culture.
Those which are characterized by a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of the motives of others with no sufficient basis is referred as a personality disorder.