The Chris Barker FAQ

"Anankastic (Obsessive-Compulsive) Personality Disorder

Personality disorder characterized by at least 3 of the following:

(a) feelings of excessive doubt and caution;
(b) preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization or
schedule;
(c) perfectionism that interferes with task completion;
(d) excessive conscientiousness, scrupulousness, and undue preoccupation
with productivity to the exclusion of pleasure and interpersonal
relationships;
(e) excessive pedantry and adherence to social conventions;
(f) rigidity and stubbornness;
(g) unreasonable insistence by the patient that others submit to exactly his
or her way of doing things, or unreasonable reluctance to allow others to do
things;
(h) intrusion of insistent and unwelcome thoughts or impulses."

From "The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders"
World Health Organization, Geneva

I'm glad that we can choose more than three.

Bill Meeks

We have a "coder" in our midst - and up-to-date one to boot?

> From "The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders"
> World Health Organization, Geneva
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> I'm glad that we can choose more than three.
>
> Bill Meeks
>
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