character disorder; personality disorder
Dated psychiatric term; in modern clinical usage, パーソナリティ障害 is preferred. Still encountered in older texts or general explanations.
See also: パーソナリティ障害
In older psychiatry, the term 'character disorder' was used.
In this book, 'character disorder' is explained as having almost the same meaning as 'personality disorder'.
Modern clinical term for personality disorder; 性格障害 is its dated predecessor.
Compound of 性格 (personality, character) and 障害 (disorder). The term is a direct translation of the English 'character disorder', which was historically used in psychiatry before being largely replaced by 'personality disorder'.