Personality Disorders Flashcards by Emjay Cosico

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A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Persistently bears grudges (i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights)

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Paranoid Personality Disorder: When? Ilan?

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Early adulthood; Four or more

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A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference).

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., super- stitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or “sixth sense”; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations).

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped).

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Inappropriate or constricted affect.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Schizotypal: when and ilan

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early adulthood; five or more

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A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Is suggestible (i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances).

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Histrionic: when and ilan

Early adulthood; five or more

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Requires excessive admiration.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Has a sense of entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations).

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends).

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Ilan kailan

early adulthood five or more

A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder: Ilan and kailan

Three or more, 15-18 years

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

Borderline Personality Disorder

Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)

Borderline Personality Disorder

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)

Borderline Personality Disorder

Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)

Borderline Personality Disorder

Chronic feelings of emptiness.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).

Borderline Personality Disorder

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder ilan kailan

early adulthood; five or more

A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Views self as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities because they may prove embarrassing

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Avoidant Personality; ilan at kailan

early adulthood; four or more

A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

Dependent Personality Disorder

Has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Needs others to assume responsibility for most major areas of his or her life.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Has difficulty expressing disagreement with others because of fear of loss of support or approval. (Note: Do not include realistic fears of retribution.)

Dependent Personality Disorder

Has difficulty initiating projects or doing things on his or her own (because of a lack of self-confidence in judgment or abilities rather than a lack of motivation or energy).

Dependent Personality Disorder

Goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others, to the point of volunteering to do things that are unpleasant.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears of being unable to care for himself or herself.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Urgently seeks another relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends

Dependent Personality Disorder

Is unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of himself or herself.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Dependent Personality Disorder ilan kailan

early adulthood; five or more

A pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion (e.g., is unable to complete a project because his or her own overly strict standards are not met).

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships (not accounted for by obvious economic necessity).

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification).

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Shows rigidity and stubbornness.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Adopts a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Ilan? Kailan?

Early adulthood; Four or more