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连载翻译之：性格障碍(1) / Personality Disorder

First, what is personality?

首先，什么是性格？

Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole.

性格是指人与人之间典型的思维、情绪和行为模式的差异。性格研究专注于两个大的方面：一是理解具体性格特点之间的个体差异，比如有人善于社交，有人易怒；二是了解一个人的不同部分（性格）是如何形成一个整体的。

Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology

引自《心理学百科全书》

Then, what is personality disorder?

再来，什么是性格障碍？

To answer this question, let’s get a touch of what causes personality disorder?

为了回答这个问题，先来初步了解一下是什么导致了性格障碍？

Research suggests that genetics, abuse and other factors contribute to the development of obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic or other personality disorders.

研究表明：基因、虐待及其他因素都能导致强迫症、自恋或者其他性格障碍。

For the sake of controlling the length of articles and saving one-time reading time, specific causes of personality disorder will be elaborated in the next edition,

为了控制篇幅和节约一次性阅读时间，性格障碍的具体成因将在下一期详述。