Personality Flashcards
An enduring, repetitive pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself
Personality trait
Inflexible, maladaptive, and rigidly pervasive pattern of behavior causing subjective distress and/or impaired functioning; person is usually not aware of problem
Personality Disorder; A, B, C - Weird, Wild, Worried
Odd or eccentric; inability to develop meaningful social relationships. No psychosis - Weird
Cluster A personality Disorders
Types of Type A Personality DIsorders
Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness; projection is the major defense mechanism
Paranoid
Voluntary social withdrawal, limited emotional expression, content with social isolation
SchizoiD (d = distant)
Eccentric appearance, odd beliefs or magical thinking, interpersonal awkwardnesss
SchizoTypal (T for magical Thinking)
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic - Wild
Cluster B personality disorders
Disregard for and violation of rights of others, criminality, impulsivity; >18y/o with Hx of Conduct disorder before 15y/o
Antisocial
Unstable mood and interpersonal relationships, impulsiveness, self-mutilation, boredom, sense of eptiness; splitting is a major defense mechanism
Borderline
Excessive emotionality and excitability, attention seeking, sexually provocative, overly concerned with appearance
Histrionic
Grandiosity, sense of entitlement; lacks empathy and requires excessive admiration; demands the best and rxts to criticism with rage
Narcissistic
Types of Cluster B personality disorders
Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
Anxious or fearful; genetic association with anxiety disorders - Worried
Cluster C personality disorder
Types of Type C personality disorders
avoidant, obsessive-compulsive, dependent
cowardly, compulsive and clingy
Hypersensitive to rejection, socially inhibited, timid, feelins of inadequancy, desires relationships with others
Avoidant
Pre-occupation with order, perfectionism, and control
OCD
Behavior consistent with one’s own beliefs and attitudes
Ego-syntonic
Submissive, clingy, excessive need to be taken care of, low self-confidence
dependent
Personality Disorder Cluster associated with mood disorders and substance abuse
Cluster B
Personality Disorder Cluster associated with schizophrenia
Cluster A
Personality Disorder Cluster associated with Anxiety Disorders
Cluster C
Schizophrenia for <1 month
Brief psychotic disorder, usually stress related
Schizophrenia for 1-6months
Schizophreniform disorder
Schizophrenia for >6 months
Schizophrenia
Keeping “schizo-“ straight
Schizoid < Schizotypal < Schizophrenic < Schizoaffective
Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizophrenic psychotic symptoms + bipolar or depressive mood disorder
