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Social Anxiety Disorder involves marked fear or anxiety in social situations where a person may be scrutinized, such as conversations, being observed, or performing before others. The DSM-5 material says the person fears negative evaluation or embarrassment and typically avoids these situations or endures them with intense anxiety, while also discussing diagnostic features, course, differential diagnosis, and comorbidity.
Dependent Personality Disorder is characterized in the source by a strong need for care and support from others, accompanied by fear that important relationships will end. This pattern may involve difficulty disagreeing, making independent decisions, or beginning tasks alone, and the article describes seeking a replacement source of support after a dependent relationship ends.
Avoidant Personality Disorder is described as a persistent pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and heightened sensitivity to criticism or rejection. The source says that fear of embarrassment or negative evaluation can lead people to avoid social interactions, and it lists diagnostic features such as reluctance to take interpersonal risks and viewing oneself as socially inept or inferior.
This article presents the DSM description of malingering as the intentional production or exaggeration of symptoms for an external incentive. It lists circumstances that may raise suspicion and distinguishes malingering from factitious and conversion disorders by motivation, intentionality, and the presence of external incentives.
The DSM-5 discussion considers how pedophilia and pedophilic disorder are defined and distinguished from child molestation. Berlin argues that psychiatric terminology can blur clinical and criminal concepts, and discusses diagnostic wording, sexual interest, and the separate clinical and legal implications of behavior.
