Personality Disorder

Question 1

Personality Disorders

Answer 1

Longstanding disturbances in personality and behaviour not resulting from organic insult.
Believed to be maladaptive behaviour patterns learned through early negative experiences.
Challenging to treat

Question 2

Paranoid PD

Answer 2

1. Sensitivity to setbacks
2. Unforgivness of insults
3. Misconstruing others as hostile
4. Tenacious sense of personal rights

Question 3

Schizoid PD

Answer 3

1, Withdrawal from affection

2. Avoidance of social contact
3. Preference for fantasy
4. Limited capacity for pleasure

Question 4

Dissocial PD

Answer 4

“psychopathy”

1. Disregard for social expectations
2. Callous unconcern
3. unmodified by punishment
4. low threshold for violence
5. Always rationalise behaviour

Question 5

Emotionally unstable PD Borderline / impulsive type

Answer 5

1. Impulsive behaviour
2. Emotional outbursts
3. Chronic feelings of emptyness
4. Intense but unstable relationships
5. Suicide gestures

Question 6

Histrionic PD

Answer 6

1. Shallow affect
2. Dramatism
3. Self- indulgence

Question 7

Anankastic PD

Answer 7

perfectionists with OCD traits.

Rigid and over cautious

Question 8

Dependant PD

Answer 8

Reliance on others
inability to make decisions
passive compliance

Question 9

Enduring Personality Change

Answer 9

> 2yrs significant change from premorbid state with no organic disease.
usually following catastophic experiences or psychiatric illness