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Viewpoints on Abnormal Personality

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Normative View
Statistical View
Social Viewpoint
Generally Speaking

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Anybody who is different from the one making the judgment is said to be abnormal.

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Normative View

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Anybody is abnormal who diverges very much from the average. The average is presumed to be the most normal one.

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Statistical View

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The normal person is the one who is adjusted to his environment, to such an extent that he finds life enjoyable –and the abnormal one is the unadjusted –the one who would like to escape from reality.

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Social Viewpoint

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The individual is recognized as normal if he has some socially accepted goals around which his activities are integrated, if he finds the pursuit of goal worthwhile and if in general, he gets pleasure out of living.

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Generally Speaking

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A serious psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality; a condition often referred to as psychosis

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Schizophrenia

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a psychological disorder marked by loss of contact with reality and a seriously impaired ability to function.

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Psychosis

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Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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Hallucination

Delusions

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imaginary sensation

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Hallucination

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false beliefs not generally shared by others in the culture

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Delusions

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Delusions

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Delusion of Grandeur
Delusion of Persecution
Lack of associations/derailment

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Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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Loss of/deficiency in thoughts & behavior

Social Withdrawal

Apathy

Loss of motivation

Lack of goal-directed activity

Very limited speech

Slowed movements

Poor hygiene & grooming

Poor problem-solving ability

Distorted sense of time

Flat affect

Act and move like robots

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Types of Schizophrenia

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Paranoid Schizophrenia
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Catatonic Schizophrenia

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suffers from delusions of grandeur or persecution.

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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most serious type
marked by extreme social withdrawal, hallucinations, delusions, silliness, inappropriate laughter and other bizarre behavior.

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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may display complete stillness and stupor, or great excitement and agitation.

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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Involve moods or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted.

Mood ranges from the depth of severe depression to the height of extreme mania

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Mood disorders

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Mood disorders

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Depressive disorders

Bipolar disorders

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overwhelming sadness, despair, and hopelessness, and usually lose their ability to experience pleasure.

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Depressive disorder

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patients exhibit two radically different moods, extreme highs (Manic episodes), and extreme loss or major depression

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Bipolar disorders

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Characterized by severe anxiety, a vague, general uneasiness or an ominous feeling that something bad is about to happen.

Sometimes, anxiety is free-floating or not associated with anything specific.

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Anxiety disorders

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Anxiety Disorders

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Phobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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–chronic excessive worry for 6 months or longer.

These unfortunate people expect the worst, their worry is either unfounded or greatly exaggerated and thus, difficult to control.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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–a person experiences recurrent unpredictable attacks of overwhelming anxiety, fear or terror.

Pounding heart, uncontrolled trembling/shaking, and sensation of choking something.

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Panic Disorder

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a persistent, irrational fear of an object, situation, or activity that the person feel compelled to avoid.

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Phobias

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an intense fear of being in a situation which immediate escape is not possible.

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Agoraphobia

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an irrational fear and avoidance of social situations.

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Social Phobia

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a marked fear of a specific object/situation.

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Specific Phobia

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Categories of Specific Phobia

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Situational Phobias
Fear of the natural environment
Animal phobia
Blood-injection-injury phobia

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an anxiety in which people suffer from recurrent obsessions/compulsions or both.

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Obssesive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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are persistent, recurring, involuntary thoughts, images, or impulses that invade consciousness and cause a person distress.

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Obsessions

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a persistent, irresistible, irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly.

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Compulsions

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involves bodily symptoms that cannot be identified as any known medical condition.

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Somatoform Disorders

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a person is preoccupied with her health and convinced that she have some serious disorder eventhough there is no evidence of any medical problem.

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Hypochondriasis

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a person suffers a loss of motor/sensory functioning in some part of the body; the loss has no physical cause but solves some psychological problem.

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Conversion Reaction Disorder

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disorders in which under stress, one losses the ability to integrate one’s consciousness, identity, and memories, of important personal events.

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Dissociative Disorders

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a complete/partial loss of the ability to recall personal information/identity past experiences.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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one has a complete loss of memory of one’s entire identity.

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Dissociative Fugue

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two or more distinct personalities occur in the same person each taking over at different times.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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The personality in control of the body and the largest percentage of the time

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host personality

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Alternate personality

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alter personality

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Involves a problem in accepting one’s identity as male or female. Children either express a desire to be or insist that they are of the other gender.

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Gender-Identity Disorders

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Gender-Identity Disorders

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Paraphilia
Fetishism
Exhibitionism
Pedophilia
Voyeurism
Sexual Masochism
Sexual Sadism
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Recurrent sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving objects, children, either non-consenting persons or the suffering, or humiliation of the individual or his or her partners.

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Paraphilia

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving an inanimate object such as women’s undergarments or shoes.

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Fetishism

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger

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Exhibitionism

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children

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Pedophilia

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving watching unsuspecting people naked, undressing, or engaging in sexual activity

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Voyeurism

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving being beaten, humiliated, bound or otherwise made to suffer

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Sexual Masochism

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving inflicting physical or psychological pain or suffering to another

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Sexual sadism

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Sexual urges, fantasies, and behavior involving among other things, animals, feces, urine, and corpses

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Other Paraphilias

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Low sexual desire; the inability to attain or maintain sexual arousal; a delay or absence of orgasm; premature ejaculation; or genital pain associated with sexual activity

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Sexual Dysfunctions

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A continuing, inflexible, maladaptive patterns of behaving and relating to others that causes great distress or impaired functioning and differs significantly from the patterns expected in the person’s culture.

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Personality Disorders

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Callous disregard for the rights and feelings of others; behavior that is manipulative, impulsive, selfish, aggressive, irresponsible willingness to break the law, he cheats or exploit others for personal gain w/o remorse

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Behavior characterized as suspicious, entrusting, guarded, hypersensitive, easily slighted, lacking emotion, holding grudges

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Seeking for attention and approval; overly dramatic; self-centered; demanding, manipulative, easily bored, craving for excitement, often attractive and seductive person

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement, behavior that is self-centered and arrogant; demanding, exploitative, envious, craving for admiration and attention, lack of empathy

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Unstable in mood, behavior, self-image, and social relationships; intense fear of abandonment, impulsive and reckless behavior, inappropriate anger, suicidal gestures

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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