ABSTRACT
Passive–aggressive personality disorder (PAPD) is described as “a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations that begins by early adulthood and that occurs in a variety of contexts” (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000, p. 733). In early versions of the Diagnostic and StatisticalManual ofMental Disorders (DSM) (i.e., DSM-II, APA, 1969), PAPD was labeled as negativistic personality disorder because of the degree to which individuals showed pervasive oppositionality in their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships. A list of the DSM-IV-Text Revision (APA, 2001) diagnostic criteria is provided in Table 13.1Table 13.1.
