The DSM criteria for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are:
- A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts
- Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost
- Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion
- Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships
- Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values
- Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value
- Is reluctant to delegate task or to work with others unless they submit exactly to his or her way of doing things
- Adopts a miserly spending style towards both self and others
- Shows rigidity and stubbornness
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