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90  Personality Pattern Prototypes

90.1 Summary

• Optional labels for recognizable personality patterns, anchored to dimensional severity and trait qualifiers.

90.2 How to Use This Cluster

• Start with the Atlas entry for emotion regulation/self-concept/interpersonal pain.
• Rate the Personality Functioning domain.
• Use trait qualifiers rather than fixed type labels when possible.

90.3 Boundary Markers

• What it is: enduring patterns of self and interpersonal functioning.
• What it is not: acute state changes or isolated situational reactions.

90.4 Suggested Trait Qualifiers

• Negative affectivity.
• Detachment.
• Antagonism.
• Disinhibition.
• Psychoticism.

Documentation Output. Severity tier + trait qualifiers. Note uncertainty and context.

90.5 Cross-Links

• Atlas: Emotion Regulation, Self-Concept, and Interpersonal Pain.
• Domains: Personality Functioning (Dimensional).
• Specifiers: Course and Time Pattern; Severity and Impairment; Risk Modifiers.

90.6 Documentation Snippet (1-2 lines)

• “Personality functioning impairment with high negative affectivity and disinhibition; severity 3.”