#anankastic

• Anankastic — Pertaining to or characteristic of the obsessive-compulsive personality; a person who exhibits a pathological need for order, extreme perfectionism, mental rigidity, excessive meticulousness, and a permanent preoccupation with details, rules, lists, or structural organization. In psychiatry, anankastic personality disorder describes that disharmonious structure where the individual is dominated by chronic doubts and an intense feeling of internal obligation, impairing behavioral flexibility and social interactions.
• Anankastic — An alternative or neologic adjectival form for anankastic; pertaining to or characteristic of the obsessive-compulsive personality, or exhibiting rigid behavioral manifestations. In psychiatric semiology, it describes a cognitive style dominated by extreme perfectionism, excessive scrupulosity, inflexible attachment to rules and lists, as well as a structural inability to fluidly adapt to unforeseen changes in the social or professional environment.