Personality Disorders Flashcards
What is Baldes’ definition?
A fixed, maladaptive pattern of coping in social context
- people problems
What is the DSM5 definition of personality disorders?
A class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive pattern of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many context and deviating markedly from those accepted by the individuals culture.
What are the flavors of personality disorders?
Cluster A= Weird (accusatory, Aloff and Awkward)
Cluster B= Wild
Cluster C= Worried
What is cluster A personality disorder and what is it made up of?
- Odd and eccentric, inability to develop meaningful social relationships.
- no psychosis
- genetic association with schizt
1. Paranoid
2. Schizotypal
3. Schizoid
What is the paranoid PD?
Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness.
- projection is the major defense mechanism
- Beginning by early adulthood
- 4 out of the 7 symptoms to have disorder
What is schizoid PD?
Voluntary social withdrawal with limited emotional expression
- content with social isolation
- SchizoiD=Distant
- begins early childhood
- must have 4 of the 7 symptoms to have disorder
What is schizotypal PD?
Eccentric appearance
- odd beliefs or magical thinking
- interpersonal awkwardness
- begins early adulthood
- 5 out 9 symptoms
What is a cluster B personality disorder and what are its subtypes?
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic
- genetic ass with mood disorders and substance abuse
- Wild= Bad to the Bone
1. Antisocial
2. Borderline
3. Histrionic
4. Narcissistic
What is borderline PD?
Unstable mood and interpersonal relationships -impulsive - self mutilation - SI -sense of emptiness - F> M - splitting is major defense mechanism Treat with dialectical behavior therapy
What is Narcissistic PD
Grandiosity, sense of entitlement
- lacks empathy and require excessive admiration
- often demand the best
- reacts to criticism with rage
- begins in adulthood
What is antisocial PD?
Disregard for and the violation of right of others
- criminality
- impulsive
- M>F
- > 18 and have HX of CD
- Called CD (conduct disorder) when younger than 18
What is Histrionic PD?
Excessive emotionality and excitability
- attn seeking
- seeking provocative
- overly concerned with appearance
- needs to be center of attn
- begins in adulthood
What is cluster C PD and its subtypes?
Anxious and fearful
- genetic assn with anxiety disorders
- Coward, Compulsive and Clingy
1. Avoidant
2. Obsessive-compulsive
3. Dependent
What is avoidant PD?
Hypersensitivity to rejection
- timid
- socially inhibited
- feeling of inadequacy
- desires relationships with others (able to diff between this and schizoid)
What is dependent PD?
Submissive and clingy
- excessive need to be taken care of
- low self-confidence
- Pts get stuck in abusive relationships often
