Rigid, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of behavior or ways of relating to others, which ultimately become self-defeating because of their rigidity, are called ______ disorders.
A) adjustment
B) psychotic
C) personality
D) neurotic

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Personality disorders are defined as maladaptive patterns of behavior, thinking, and feeling that are stable, inflexible, and relatively enduring, and which impair social and occupational functioning. Adjustment disorders are acute and time-limited reactions to stressors, neurotic disorders involve excessive and irrational anxiety or fear, and psychotic disorders involve a loss of contact with reality.

Rigid, Inflexible, and Maladaptive Patterns of Behavior or Ways of Relating