Characteristics of personality disorder include:

  1. Psychoanalytic theories state that defense mechanisms:

A. Inhibit conflicts from becoming conscious

B. Are frequently used as physiological tools in accommodation

C. Are essential mechanisms of neurotic symptom formation?

D. Are mechanisms of resistance during psychotherapy?

  1. Characteristics of personality disorder include:

A. A gradual flattening of the thought process

B. A normal sense of reality

C. Delusions, observed over a long period

D. The possible occurrence of psychotic episodes