Personality Disorder

Question 1

What are the negative ways people with PD are perceived?

Answer 1

Manipulative
Attention seeking
Selfish
Demanding

Question 2

What is considered a personality disorder?

Answer 2

‘…failure to achieve adaptive solutions to life tasks…’

Achieve certain life tasks:
integrated representations of self and others
capacity for intimacy
capacity for affiliation
adaptive social functioning
prosocial behaviour
cooperative relationships