ABSTRACT
Personality Disorders were earlier known as Character Disorders (Zax & Cowen, 1976). Implicit in this conceptualization was the idea that the individual suffered a weakness of the will. Pinel named it manie sans de/ire, and later in 1935, a British psychiatrist, J. C. Pritchard, introduced the term "moral insanity" (McCord & McCord, 1964). It was not until the appearance of DSM-I in 1952 that Personality Disorders were recognized. DSM-I (1952) distinguished three different types of personality disturbances: personality pattern disturbances, personality trait disturbances, and sociopathic personality disturbances.
