Personality Disorders Flashcards
It is a persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behavior that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships.
Personality disorder
The odd or eccentric personality disorders
Cluster A Personality Disorders
Cluster A Personality Disorders (3)
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
People with ____ are excessively mistrustful and suspicious, without any justification. They assume that other people are out to harm or trick them.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
It’s defining characteristic is a pervasive unjustified distrust. They are suspicious in situation in which most other people would agree their suspicions are unfounded.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Show a pattern of detachment from social relationships and a limited range of emotions in interpersonal relationships. They seem aloof, cold, and indifferent to people. They lack emotional expressiveness and pursued vague interests.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
The old term, ____, is relatively old, having been used by Bleuler to describe people who have a tendency to turn inward and away from the outside world.
schizoid
was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist, most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including “schizophrenia”, “schizoid”, “autism”, depth psychology and what Sigmund Freud called “Bleuler’s happily chosen term ambivalence”.
Eugen Bleuler
Individuals with ____ seem neither to desire nor to enjoy closeness with others.
Schizoid Personality disorder
People with ____ are typically socially isolated. They also behave in ways that would seem unusual to many of us. They tend to be suspicious and to have odd beliefs.
Schizotypal Personality disorder
People given a diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder have psychotic-like symptoms such as believing everything related to them personally, social deficits, and sometimes cognitive impairments of paranoia.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
a schizophrenic symptom in which the patient thinks that things completely disconnected from him are influencing him or conveying messages to him
ideas of reference
dramatic, emotional, or erratic
Cluster B Personality Disorders
People with ____ have a history of failing to comply with social norms. They completely lack in conscience and empathy.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Individuals with ____ tend to have a long history of violating the rights of others. They are often described as being aggressive because they take what they want, indifferent to the concerns of other people. Lying and cheating seem to be second nature to them. Substance abuse is also common.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder has had a number of names over the years. Philippe Pinel identified what he called ____ (mania without delirium) to describe people with unusual emotional responses and impulsive rages but no deficits in reasoning ability.
manie sans delire
DSM-5 provided two subtypes for children who engage in behaviors that violate the society’s norms:
Childhood-onset type
Adolescent-onset type
An additional subtype new to the DSM-5 is called “____”. This designation is an indication that the young person presents in a way that suggests personality characteristics similar to an adult with psychopathy.
with a callous-unemotional presentation
Their moods and relationships are unstable and usually they have poor self-image. These people often feel empty and are at great risk of dying by their own hands.
Borderline Personality Disorder
They tend to have turbulent relationships, fearing abandonment but lacking control over their emotions. They often engage in behaviors that suicidal, self-mutilative, or both, cutting, burning, or punching themselves.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Theatrical in manner
Histrionic
Individuals with _____ tend to be overly dramatic and often seen almost to be acting
Histrionic Personality Disorder
They tend to be vain, self-centered, and uncomfortable when they are not in the limelight. They are often seductive in appearance and behavior. They seek reassurance and approval constantly and may become upset or angry when others do not attend them or praise them.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Psychoanalysts including Freud used the term _____ to describe people who show an exaggerated sense of self-importance and are preoccupied with receiving attention.
narcissistic
People with ____ has an unreasonable sense of self-importance and are so preoccupied with themselves that they lack sensitivity and compassion for other people. They are not comfortable unless someone is admiring them.
narcissistic personality disorder
Anxious or fearful (cluster)
Cluster C Personality Disorders
Cluster B Personality Disorders (4)
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Cluster C Personality Disorders (3)
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
People with ___ are extremely sensitive to the opinions of others and although they desire social relationships, their anxiety leads them to avoid such associations.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
People with this disorder have extremely low self-esteem coupled with a fear of rejection causes them to be limited in their friendships and dependent on those they feel comfortable with. These individuals feel chronically rejected by others and are pessimistic about their future.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
People with ____ rely on others to make ordinary decisions as well as important ones which results in an unreasonable fear of abandonment.
Dependent Personality Disorder
They sometimes agree with other people when their opinion differs so as not to be rejected. Their desire to obtain and maintain supportive and nurturant relationships may lead to other behavioral characteristics including submissiveness, timidity, and passivity.
Dependent Personality Disorder
People who have ___ are characterized by a fixation on things being done the right way.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
