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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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Is door half open or half closed, is glass half full or half empty

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Cognition

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People who always view the glass as half empty, have a

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Cognitive deficit

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Has deficits in 2 of 4 spheres that are pervasive across social situations and are stable over time

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Personality disorder

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Can not be accounted for by another mental disorder, substance, or General Medical Condition (GMC)

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Personality disorder

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Unconscious mental processes that the ego uses to resolve conflict and reduce anxiety

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Coded on axis II and grouped into 3 clusters

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Personality disorders

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Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source

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Projection

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Characterized by pervasive distrust and suspiciousness

-Increased prevalence among relatives of schizophrenics

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Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD)

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Will avoid due to their pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others

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PPD patients

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Are content in their solitude

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Schizoid Personality (SPD)

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Better defined through their eccentricity of behavior

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Schizotypal Personality (StPD)

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Emotionally detached from social relationships

-No desire for close relationships

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Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD)

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Childhood neglect is hypothesized to play a role in

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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Show discomfort with close relationships, but also shows eccentricities of behavior, sometimes called “magical thinking”

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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15
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Studies show interfamilial aggregation with

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Schizotypal Personality disorder has a strong familial relationship with

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Schizophrenia

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What are the 4 cluster B personality disorders?

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Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic

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Disregard for and violation of the rights of others

-at least 18 years old

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Anti-social disorder

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A harsh, violent, and criminal environment predisoposes for

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Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD)

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About 75% of the incarcerated have

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APD

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Acting out and expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions such as assaults

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Generally defined through instability in relationships and impulsivity

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Borderline Personality Disorder

23
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Defined as all or nothing thinking/behavior

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Splitting

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Shows a pattern of inflexible defense mechanisms such as affective instability and suicidal behavior/gestures

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Shows increased rates in families of alcoholics, antisocial PD, and mood disorder

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Women with BPD frequently have suffered from

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Sexual or physical trauma

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Believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity

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Splitting (affective instability)

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Aggression towards others is expressed through passivity and masochism towards self

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Passive aggression

29
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Characterized by excessive and superficial emotionality

-Powerful need for attention

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

30
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Has a familial link to somatization and antisocial PD

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress

-Common in histrionic personality disorder

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Dissociation

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Users of dissociation are often seen as

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Dramatizing and emotionally shallow

33
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Extremely low self-esteem, need for admiration, and grandiosity

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

34
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Narcissists have a lack of

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Empathy

35
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50-70% are men

-Are interpersonally exploitative

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Narcissist

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The defining quality of the narcissistic personality disorder

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Twinship Transference

37
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Expressing the need to rely on the analyst as a narcissistic function possessing characteristics like him/herself

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Twinship Transference

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A defense against shame/feelings of inadequacy

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Avoidance

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Have the desire for close relationships but avoid them because of the anxiety produced by their sense of inadequacy

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Absence/removal is increased in

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Unwilling to get involved with people unless they are sure they won’t get hurt

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People w// Avoidant Personality Disorder

42
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Require validation with every next step

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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Anxiety concerning separation from attachment figures with onset in childhood

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Separation anxiety

44
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May be an association with anxiety and mood disorders. Is defined by the patient’s being perfectionists

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OCD

45
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Have a pattern of inflexible defense mechanisms. I.e. isolation

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OCD

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The separation of feelings from ideas and events

-Seen in OCD

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Reaction formation

47
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Replacing a warded-off idea or feeling with an emphasis on its opposite

-In OCD

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Undoing

48
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Isolation is a key characteristic of?

-Remember the truth in fine detail but without affect or emotion

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OCD patients

49
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Which personality disorders may remit with age?

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APD, BPD, Avoidant, and Dependent

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