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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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Inflexible, maladaptive personality traits that cause impairment in social/occupational function

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Personality disorders

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At what age do personality disorders become present and enduring

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Adolescence

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T or F. Personality disorders inherently cause distress.

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FALSE

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Our enduring personal organization that determines our adjustment to environment and develops through interaction of hereditary dispositions and environment

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Personality

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Aspect of personality that describes the biologically derived elements of behavior and dimensions of personality.

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Temperament

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At what age is temperament identifiable?

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Age 3-4

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Cloninger’s 4 forms of temperaments:

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  • Novelty seeking
  • Harm avoidance
  • Reward dependence
  • Persistence (delayed gratification)
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Aspect of personality that is weakly related to heritable factors and develops from culture, unique life events, and social learning. More change w/ aging, therapy, and healing relationships.

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Character

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Cloninger’s 4 forms of character:

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  • Self as autonomous individual
  • Self in relationships
  • Self in community
  • Self as part of universe
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Elements of character

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  • Mental (defense) mechanisms
  • Representation of self
  • Representations of significant others
  • Psychometric studies
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Cloninger’s three measures of character/psychometric studies:

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  1. Self-directedness,
  2. Cooperativeness
  3. Self transcendence - generativity
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As people age, what happens to the following (increase/decrease:

  • Novelty seeking
  • Self-directedness/cooperativeness
  • Self-transcendence
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  • Decreases
  • Increases
  • Decreases through 40’s, then bimodal change
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Ternary Awareness

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Knowledge of physical, mental, spiritual components, self-transcendence + self-directedness, sanctification/calling

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Cluster A disorders

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Schizoid, Schizotypal, Paranoid

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Which cluster of personality disorders?

Phenomenology - odd, eccentric

Temperament - low reward dependence

Character - primitive mental mechanisms, esp projection

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Cluster A

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  • Indifference - to social relationships
  • Constricted - restricted range of emotional experience/expression
  • Solitary - Impaired capacity to form relational world
  • Asexual

(attenuated negative symptoms of schizophrenia)

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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  • Referential and magical thinking, connections destabilize and disorganize
  • Social anxiety and yearnings
  • Odd behavior and appearance
  • Express attachment needs more than schizoid

(attenuated positive symptoms of schizophrenia)

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Why is schizoid personality disorder a disorder if patient is content?

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Makes him 10x more likely to develop psychosis/have psychotic episode

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  • Pattern of over-interpreting the environment, hypersensitive
  • Pervasive, unwarranted suspiciousness; mistrustful, unforgiving, isolated
  • Unremitting hyper-vigilance
  • Self referential (egocentric)

(attenuated paranoid subtype of schizophrenia)

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Which cluster of disorders involve increased vulnerability of psychosis and decreased reward dependence?

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Cluster A

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Cluster B Disorders

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Histrionic, Antisocial, Narcissistic, Borderline

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Which cluster of personality disorders?

Phenomenology: dramatic and erratic

Temperament: High novelty seeking, low harm avoidance

Character: Empathic deficits, high self-direction, low transcendence, externalization

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Cluster B

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Which personality disorder?

  • Pervasive pattern of grandiosity
  • Lack of empathy harms love relationships
  • Unquenchable need for admiration
  • Entitlement, grandiosity, competitive, exploitative, unempathic, envious
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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More common in women or men? Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Men - 70% are male

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Which personality disorder is susceptible to mood disorders and early onset alcoholism?

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Narcissistic (Cluster B)

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Which personality disorder?

  • Behavioral violation of others rights
  • Irresponsible at work, home
  • Lack of enduring attachments
  • Repetitive irritability and aggression
  • Irresponsible, aggressive, dishonest, unsocialized, impulsive, remorseless
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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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More common in women or men? Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Predominantly men

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Which personality disorder?

  • Extraordinary instability, vacillation
  • Deficient relational memory
  • Fragile view of self, others
  • Atrial fibrillation of psychiatry
  • Rageful/adulation, aggressive/self-destructive, idealization/devaluation, disconnect of effort and expectations
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Borderline Personality Disorder

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More common in women or men? Borderline Personality Disorder

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Predominantly women

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Cluster C disorders:

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Avoidant, OCD, Dependent, Passive Aggressive

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Which cluster of personality disorders?

Phenomenology: Anxious, inhibited

Temperament: High harm avoidance, reward dependence

Character: Excess of mature mental mechanisms

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Cluster C

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Which cluster of personality disorders has susceptibility to depression, late onset alcoholism?

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Cluster C

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Which personality disorder?

  • Isolated, but longing for attachment
  • Easily embarrassed, but not egocentric
  • Plain & drab, but not eccentric
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Avoidant

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Which personality disorder?

  • Deferential, obsequious, conciliatory, clinging, trades self actualization for approximation
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Dependent

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Which personality disorder?

  • Pervasive pattern of perfectionism, control, inflexibility
  • Restricted access to (vulnerable) emotions of self, others
  • Misses forest, knows minutiae of trees
  • Direct/indirect efforts to control others
  • Deficits in play, joy, spontaneity
  • Perfectionist, controlling, tedious, rule bound, indecisive, shy, stingy, scrupulous
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OCD

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