Personality Disorders Flashcards
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Cluster A Personality Disorders
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Weird (Accusatory, Aloof, Awkward):
- paranoid
- schizoid
- schizotypal
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Cluster B Personality Disorders
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Wild (Bad to the Bone)
- antisocial
- borderline
- histrionic
- narcissistic
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Cluster C Personality Disorders
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Worried (Cowardly, Compulsive, Clingy)
- Avoidant
- Obsessive-compulsive
- Dependent
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Paranoid
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distrust and suspiciousness
- projection defense mech
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Schizoid
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voluntary social withdrawal, happy with social isolation
schizoiD = Distant
6
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SchizoTypal
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magical Thinking, odd beliefs, interpersonal awkwardness
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Antisocial
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antiSOCial = SOCiopath
- conduct disorder
- violate other’s rights
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Borderline
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- UNSTABLE like no-shit mood, hates rejection, self-harm, suicidality
- hot and cold
- splitting defense mech
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Histrionic
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Excessive emotional, attn seeking, sexually provacative (histrionic means overdramatic)
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Narcissistic
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grandiosity, does not take criticism well
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Avoidant
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Hypersensitive to rejection, timid
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Obsessive-compulisve
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- perfectionism and ego-syntonic so behavior is consistent with own belief
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Dependent
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submissive and clingy, wants to be taken care of
