HPD Flashcards
1
Q
DSM-5
A
Excessive emotionality and attention seeking. 5 om:
- Uncomfortable when not the center of attention
- interaction w others is inappropriately sexually seductive/provocative
- Rapid shifting and shallow expressions of emotions
- Consistently uses physical appearance for attention
- Has excessively impressionistic/detail lacking speech style
- Self-dramatization, exaggerated expressions
- Suggestible, easily influenced
- Sees relationships more intimate than they are
2
Q
6 Subtypes
A
- Appeasing: attention seeking ft need for acceptance driven by fear/anxiety
- Vivacious: Charming but empty, Shallow relations w narcissistic behaviour
- Tempestuous: Emotionally labile, irritable. More BPD
- Disingenuous: Attention seeking w desire to control others for personal amusement.
- Theatrical: Self-promoting. praise seeking
- Infantile: Like tempestuous but behaviour doesn’t match age.
3
Q
Underlying fear
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Fear of being forgotten, oblivion, being unseen
BPD is more fueled by fear of abandonment
4
Q
Treatment goal
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Main goal is to improve interpersonal functioning.
Clinical standard;
Supportive psychotherapy; provides insight to origin of attention seeking/changing coping mechanism
psychodynamic therapy
5
Q
Feinstein
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Read case conseptualization
