Personality Disorders

Question 1

Personality Disorder

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Enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates from the expectations of the person’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible

Question 2

Three broad clusters

Answer 2

Odd and eccentric
Dramatic, emotional or erratic
Anxious and fearful

Question 3

Continuum of personality traits

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Adaptive
Excessive
Problematic
Dysunctional

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Prevalence

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6-9%

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Psychodynamic

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Result from disturbances in parent-child relationship

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Attachment Theory

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Children learn how to relate to others by the way parents relate to them

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Cogntiive- Behavioural

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Schemas are rigid and inflexible

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Paranoid personality disorder

Answer 8

Pervasive mistrust and suspicion of others

Question 9

Prevalence of paranoid PD

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less than 1%

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Schizoid

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Detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotions

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Schizoid prevalence

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Less than 1%– more men

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Schizotypal

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Odd, peculiar ideation and beliefs

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Schizotypal prevalence

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3%

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Antisocial PD

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Disregard and violation of rights of others

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Prevalence of APD

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3%

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Fearlessness Hypothesis

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APD people have a higher threshold for fear

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Psychpathy

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Chronic deceivers– commit 2x more violent crimes

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Prevalence of psychopathy

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1%

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Fundamental psychopathy

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Result of biological predispositon

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Secondary Psychopathy

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Dependant on negative environmental experiences in childhood

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Borderline

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Instability of relationships, self image and emotions

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Prevalence of BPD

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1-2% (10-20% clinical pop) More women

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Histrionic

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Excessive emotionality and attention seeking

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Prevalence of HPD

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3% (10-15% clinical) More women

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Narcissistic

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Grandiose sense of self-importance

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Prevalence of narcissists

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Less than 1% more men

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Avoidant

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Social inhibition and fear of rejection

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Avoidant prevalence

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1%

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Dependant

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Strong need to be taken care of by others

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Dependant prevalence

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2%, more women

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Obsessive-Compulsive

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Preoccupation with order, perfection and control

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OCPD prevalence

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2% more men

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Object-relations

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Flaws in self has resulted from unfortunate formative experiences

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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

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For BPD-- therapist accepts patients demanding and manipulative behaviours