Classical Clinical Examples Flashcards
30 yo man says his wife has been cheating on him because he does not have a good enough job to provide her needs. He also claims that on his pervious job, his boss laid him off because he did a better job than his boss. He has initiated several lawsuits. Refuses couples therapy because he believes the therapist will side with his wife. Believes neighbors are critical of him.
Paranoid personality disorder
45 yo scientist works in the lab most of the day and has no friends, according to his coworkers. He has not been able to keep his job because of failure to collaborate with others. He expresses no desire to make friends and is content with his single life. He has no evidence of a thought disorder.
Schizoid personality disorder
35 yo man dresses in a wizard costume every weekend with friends as part of a live action role-playing community. He spends a great deal of time on his computer set up in his basement for video games and to “detect the presence of extraterrestrial communications in space.” He has no auditory or visual hallucinations
Schizotypal personality disorder
30 yo unemployed man has been accused of killing three senior citizens after robbing them. He is surprisingly charming in the interview. In his adolescence, he was arrested several times for stealing cars and assaulting other kids
Antisocial personality disorder
23 yo medical student attempted to cut her wrist because things did not work out with a man she had been dating over the past 3 weeks. She states that guys are jerks and “not worth her time”. She often feels that she is “alone in this world”
Borderline personality disorder
33 yo scantily clad woman comes to your office complaining that her fever feels like “she is burning in hell.” she vividly describes how the fever has affected her work as a teacher.
Histrionic personality disorder
48 yo company CEO is rushed to the ED after an automobile accident. He does not let the residents operate on him and requests the Chief of trauma surgery because he is “vital to the company.” He make several business phone calls in the ED to stay on “top of his game”
Narcissistic personality disorder
30 yo postal worker rarely goes out with her coworkers and often makes excuses when they ask her to join them because she is afraid they will not like her. She wishes to go out and meet new people but, according to her, she is too “shy”
Avoidant personality disorder
40 yo man who lives with his parents has trouble deciding how to get his car fixed. He calls his father at work several times to ask very trivial things. He has been unemployed over the past 3 years
Dependent personality disorder
40 yo secretary has been recently fired because of her inability to prepare some work projects in time. According to her, they were not in the right format and she had to revise them six times, which led to her delay. This has happened before but she feels that she is not given enough time.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
