Personality Disorders Flashcards
3 categories in the DSM 5:
Odd or eccentric: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal
Dramatic, emotional or erratic: Histrionic, borderline, antisocial, narssisistic
Anxious or fearful: avoidant, dependent, and obsessive compulsive
What characterizes Dramatic, emotional and erratic personality disorders
Personality so erratic or dramatic that almost impossible to have truly giving and satisfying relationships.
Narcissistic personality Disorder:
Prevalence?
Traits?
1% of population, 75% of those are men
grandiosity, lack empathy, attention seeking, self-promoting, admiration, fantasies of unlimited success, exploits, jealous
How does the psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioural/learning theories and sociocultural explain narcissistic personality disorder?
Psycho: cold, rejecting parents or loss of a parent.
Others: overly positive upbringing, zero criticism
Sociocultural: era we live in encourages narcissism.
What are the treatments for narcissistic personality disorders? How do they realize that they have it?
No treatment.
Often have co-morbid things: often depression cause mad at the world that it doesn’t recognize how great they are.
What is the difference between narcissism and malignant narcissism?
Not in DSM malignant narcissim
Narcissistic personality + anti-social + psychopathic + paranoia + lack of moral/ethical judgment + lack of remorse + aggression
What are the risk factors for crime in malignant narcissism?
Agression, sadism and paranoia
What are the requirement to be diagnosed with anti-social personality disorders?
Having characterists of conduct disorder before 15 and being over 18.
What are the characteristics for anti-social personality disorder?
failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability, disregard safety of others, irresponsibility, lack remorse, selfish, willingness to break the law.
`What is the prevalence of ASPD?
2-3.6% of US population
How does psychodynamic, learning, cognitive and biological explain anti-social personality disorders?
Psycho: absence of love from parents, lack of basic trust
Learning: learn through modelling or unintentional reinforcement.
Cognitive: attitudes and values that make disregard of others.
Biological: lower levels of serotonin (impulsivity and aggression). Deficient frontal lobe. Low levels of anxiety and arousal.
Anti-social personality disorder what are the treatments?
Usually ineffective cause mostly forced in treatments.
