Personality and dissociative disorders

Question 1

Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 1

Extreme instability in mood, identity and impulse control

Question 2

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Answer 2

Characterisation of guiltlessness, dishonesty, manipulation, callousness and self-centredness

Question 3

Dissociative Disorders

Answer 3

Condition involving disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity or perception

Question 4

Personality Disorders

Answer 4

Conditions in which personality traits, appearing first in adolescence are inflexible, stable and expressed in a wide variety of situations and lead to distress/impairment

Question 5

Derealisation/Depersonalisation Disorder

Answer 5

Multiple episodes of feeling detached from yourself or the world around you

Question 6

Dissociative Amnesia

Answer 6

Inability to recall important information that can’t be explained by normal forgetfulness

Question 7

Dissociative Identity Disorder (definition)

Answer 7

Presence of two or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control of the person’s behaviour

Question 8

Dissociative Identity Disorder (theories of genesis)

Answer 8

• Response to early trauma

- Consequence of social and cultural factors

Question 9

Schizophrenia (definition)

Answer 9

Severe disorder of thought and emotion associated with loss of contact with reality

Question 10

Schizophrenia (symptoms)

Answer 10

Delusions
Psychotic symptoms
Hallucinations
Disorganised speech
Catatonia - grossly disorganised behaviour involving motor problems

Question 11

Schizophrenia (theories of genesis)

Answer 11

Brain abnormalities
Genetic influences
Neurotransmitter differences
Diathesis-stress models