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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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Odd-Eccentric Disorders

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Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal

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Dramatic Disorders

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Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcisissistic

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Anxious-Fearful Disorders

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Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive-Compulsive

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Odd-Eccentric Commonalities

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  1. Social withdrawal
  2. Detachment from others
  3. Suspiciousness
  4. Distrust
  5. Discomfort with closeness
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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Dwight

  1. Suspiciousness, unjustified doubts about others (e.g., fidelity of partners)
  2. Distrust, unwarranted fear of harm, seeks “hidden” meanings
  3. Easily feel exploited, bears grudges
  4. Excessively sensitive to threats, especially power-autonomy dynamics
  5. Ideas of reference, projection as a defense
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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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Stanley

  1. Shows little emotion
  2. Appears indifferent to interpersonal relationships
  3. Little sexual interest
  4. Few pleasurable activities
  5. Lacks close friends
  6. Appears indifferent to praise or criticism of others
  7. “Loners”, chooses solitary activities
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Creed

  1. Psychotic-like cognitive and perceptual distortions, a mild form of thought disorder
  2. Circumstantial and tangential thinking
  3. Ideas of reference, undue suspiciousness and paranoid ideation
  4. Illusions, derealization
  5. Magical thinking, superstitions
  6. Odd beliefs
  7. Inappropriate or constricted affect
  8. Odd or eccentric behavior or appearance
  9. Few close friends, excessive social anxiety (association with paranoid fears)
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Dramatic commonalties

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  1. Emotionally labile
  2. Intense, unstable
  3. Behavioral impulsiveness
  4. Irritability, aggression
  5. Manipulative, demanding and self-centered
  6. Generally lacking empathy for others
  7. Very sensitive to withdrawal of attention
  8. Responds with disproportionate anger, anxiety and depression
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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Meredith

  1. Lack of empathy for others
  2. Lack of remorse for wrongdoing
  3. Lack of responsibility
  4. Lack of control over impulses and behavior
  5. Disregard for social norms
  6. Inability to maintain relationships, jobs, or goals
  7. Low frustration tolerance
  8. Impulsive temperament
  9. Excessive need for stimulation and excitement
  10. Do not experience guilt
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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Andy

  1. Affective lability
  2. Vulnerability to cognitive distortion
  3. Impulsive actions
  4. Sensitive to rejection
  5. Poorly controlled anger or depressive (“mood crashes”)
  6. Self-destructive: self-mutilation suicide attempts
  7. Vulnerability to cognitive and perceptual distortions, especially referential thinking, paranoid ideation, derealization, and depersonalization
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Michael

  1. Excessive demand for attention
  2. Entitled
  3. Exaggerated sense of self-importance
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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Kelly

  1. Excessively emotional, labile, and attention seeking
  2. Manipulation, seduction and provocation
  3. Little sense of empathy for others
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Anxious-Fearful commonalities

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  1. Fears of rejection and social disapproval
  2. Avoidance
  3. Submissive dependence
  4. Excess of inhibition and self-control
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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Toby

  1. Painfully shy
  2. Feeling of personal inadequacy
  3. Fear of criticism
  4. Rejection
  5. Social anxiety
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Dependent Personality Disorder

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Phyllis

  1. Feelings of inadequacy
  2. Fears of rejection, abandonment
  3. Specialize in submission
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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Angela

  1. Excessively inhibited emotionally
  2. Preoccupied with issues of control over affect, thought and action
  3. Self-defined rules
  4. Highly judgmental, rigid
  5. Preoccupied with details, perfectionistic “workaholics”
  6. Anxiety centers around loss of control

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