Your partner is meticulous, careful, conscientious, and driven. On the outside, they are the best partner, employee, father, or mother. But behind closed doors, you are suffering from their rigidity, ...

Everyone experiences intrusive thoughts, and most people can brush them off without a worry. But what happens when those ...

Jeff Lewis, a real-estate investor who buys and sells residential property in swanky Los Angeles neighborhoods, is preoccupied with order, symmetry, perfection, cleanliness, rules, and lists. If his ...

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a mental health disorder characterized by persistent preoccupation with rule-following, perfectionism, and control. OCPD falls under the umbrella of ...

With OCD, control is a defensive attempt to manage internal anxiety. It usually doesn’t involve intentional efforts to control other people. OCPD, on the other hand, can involve controlling behaviors.

Leaders of a therapy group for scrupulosity (religious anxiety/obsessive compulsive disorder) at Utah State University are ...

New psychological research suggests that the drive for perfection may be the dangerous bridge connecting narcissism to ...