Self-defeating personality disorder

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Self-defeating personality disorder (SDPD), formerly known as masochistic personality disorder, was a proposed personality disorder. As a descriptor for "Other personality disorder" it was included in the DSM-III in 1980. It was discussed in an appendix of the DSM-III-R in 1987, but was never formally admitted into the manual. The distinction was not seen as clinically valuable because of its significant overlap with other personality disorders (borderline, avoidant and dependent). Both the DSM-III and DSM-III-R separated the condition from sexual masochism. It was entirely excluded from the DSM-IV. Since the DSM-5, the diagnoses other specified / unspecified personality disorder have mostly replaced its use.

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