MCMI-IV Severe Personality Pathology Scales

Question 1

Schizotypal (Scale S)

Answer 1

Characterized by odd and eccentric thinking patterns on the low end and psychotic thought processes on the high end (Circumstantial, estranged, chaotic)

Question 2

Borderline (Scale C)

Answer 2

the intense and oftentimes unpredictable nature of their emotional experience leads to a series of erratic and risky decisions, unbalanced, instability (Split, uncertain, labile)

Question 3

Paranoid (Scale P)

Answer 3

rigid, disorganized, and suspicious, fear the loss of their self-determination, hypervigilance, mistrust of others (Mistrustful, defensive, projection)