ABSTRACT
The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder can be recognized by the following descriptors and characteristics: style vs. disorder, triggering event(s), behavioral style, interpersonal style, cognitive style, affective style, attachment style, and optimal diagnostic criterion. This chapter focuses on diagnosis, case conceptualization, psychological assessment, and treatment interventions. It begins with background information on the disorder as well as a DSM-5 description and a prototypic description of this disorder. The Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-IV), the Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test, and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) can be useful in diagnosing the Compulsive Personality Disorder as well as the personality style. Supportive-expressive therapy was provided to individuals with both obsessive compulsive and Avoidant Personality-Disordered individuals. Those with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder lost their personality disorder diagnosis in a significantly shorter period of time than those with Avoidant Personality Disorder. A protocol for conducting developmental therapy for individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality is described and illustrated by Sperry.
