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Can you please list specific behaviors of a controlling personality?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Not sure: There isn't a controlling personality disorder in psychiatry. Try googling obsessive compulsive personality disorder to see if this is the type of control you are referring to.

Answered 4/26/2013

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