Personality Disorder Pneumonics Flashcards
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Cluster A: Paranoid Personality Disorder
4 SUSPECT
Spouse infidelity suspected
Unforgiving (grudges)
Suspicious of others
Perceives attacks (and reacts)
Enemy or Friend (black and white thinking)
Confiding in others feared
Threats perceived in benign events
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Cluster A: Schizoid Personality Disorder
4 DISTANT
Detached/flattened affect
Indifferent to criticism/praise
Sex: uninterested
Tasks/ activities done alone
Absence of close friends
Neither desires nor enjoys being close with anyone
Takes pleasure in very few activites.
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Cluster A
Schizotypal PD: ME PECULIAR 5
Magical thinking
Experiences unusual perceptions
Paranoid Ideation
Eccentric behavior/appearance
Constricted/ inappropriate affect
Unusual odd thinking/ speech
Lacks close friends
Ideas of reference
Anxiety in social situations
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Cluster B
Antisocial PD: Corrupt 3
Conformity is dismissed (to law)
Obligations ignored
Reckless disregard for safety of self/others
Remorse Lacking
Underhanded (deceitful, cons, lies)
Planning insufficient (impulsive)
Temper (irritable and aggressive)
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Borderline Personality Disorder
Cluster B
Borderline PD 5 A.M. SUICIDE
Abandonment
mood instability (marked reactivity)
Suicidal (self harm)
Unstable and intense relationships
Impulsivity (in 2 potentially self-damaging areas)
Control of anger
Identity disturbance
Dissociative/ paranoid symptoms that are transient and stress related
Emptiness always (from being abandoned)
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Cluster B
Histrionic PD 5 Praise me
Provocative (sexually/seductive)
Relationships considered more intimate than they are
Attention: wants to be the center
Influenced easily
Style of speech is impressionistic, lacks detail
Emotions rapidly shifting and shallow
Mascara and full makeup for attention
Emotions are theatrical
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Cluster B
Narcissistic PD: SPEEECIAL 5
Special (the only one)
Preoccupied with fantasies (unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, ideal love)
Envious of others/ believes others envy them
Entitlement
Excess admiration required
Conceited, grandiose sense of self-importance
Interpersonal exploitation
Arrogant
Lacks empathy
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Cluster C
Avoidant PD: Cringes 4
Certainty of being liked before reaching out
Rejection preoccupies thoughts in social situations
Intimate relationships restrained (fear of being shamed)
New interpersonal relationships inhibited
Gets out of any occupational activity involving significant interpersonal contact
Embarrassment (potential) prevents new activity or taking personal risks
Self viewed as inferior
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Dependent Personality Disorder
Cluster C
Dependent PD: RELIANCE 5
Reassurance required for decisions
Expressing disagreement difficult (needs support/approval, fears loosing it)
Life Responsibilities need to be taken over by others
Initiating projects hard (lack of self-confidence)
Alone is the worst fear: helpless
Nurturance: like crack to them
Companionship: also like crack- never single
Exaggerated fears of being left to care for self
Cluster, Mnemonic, and Criteria
for
Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder
Cluster C
Obsessive-Compulsive PD: LAW FIRMS 4
Loses point of activity due to preoccupaiton with detail
Ability to complete tasks (perfectionism)
Worthless objects kept (unable to discard)
Friendships excluded due to preoccupation with work
Inflexible, scrupulous, overconscientious (ethics, values, not accounted for by religion)
Reluctant to delegate (unless micromanaged)
Miserly towards self and others
Stubborness/rigidity
Cluster A
Paranoid: suspect 4
Schizoid: distant 4
Schizotypal: me peculiar 5
(ASSP) (not asap)
Cluster B
Antisocial: Corrupt 3
Borderline: AM SUICIDE 5
Histrionic: Praise me 5
Narcissistic :SPEEECIAL 5
B is for Bahn (mi) these are all the me-me-me disorders
Cluster C
Avoidant : Cringes
Dependent: Reliance
Obsessive-Compulsive: LawFirms
Dao: Release your aversions and dependence on lawfirms (materialism)
Defense mechanism
for
depression
Depression: introjection
difference between schizoid personality disorder and schizophrenia
no negative symptoms (except maybe apathy, avolition)
