Which cluster would include paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders?

Which cluster would include paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders?

• A. Cluster A
• B. Cluster B
• C. Cluster C
• D. Cognitive perspective

Answer: (A)

Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders share an odd or eccentric pattern of thinking and behaving, which is what defines Cluster A. Paranoid personality disorder involves pervasive distrust and suspicion of others; schizoid personality disorder is characterized by social detachment and a limited emotional range; schizotypal personality disorder features discomfort with close relationships along with odd beliefs or magical thinking and unusual or eccentric behavior. This grouping is distinctly described as the odd/eccentric cluster. The other clusters describe different patterns—Cluster B includes dramatic, emotional, and erratic disorders like antisocial and borderline; Cluster C covers anxious and fearful disorders like avoidant and dependent. The cognitive perspective is not a personality-disorder cluster.

Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders share an odd or eccentric pattern of thinking and behaving, which is what defines Cluster A. Paranoid personality disorder involves pervasive distrust and suspicion of others; schizoid personality disorder is characterized by social detachment and a limited emotional range; schizotypal personality disorder features discomfort with close relationships along with odd beliefs or magical thinking and unusual or eccentric behavior. This grouping is distinctly described as the odd/eccentric cluster. The other clusters describe different patterns—Cluster B includes dramatic, emotional, and erratic disorders like antisocial and borderline; Cluster C covers anxious and fearful disorders like avoidant and dependent. The cognitive perspective is not a personality-disorder cluster.