Personality disorders Flashcards
exam 1
temperament
inborn
character
nurture
adult character reflects _____ _____ experiences and these experiences form a _____ ______ that influence later thing in life
early childhood experience and form a developmental sequence
does the process of unfolding continue throughout life?
yea
psychotic mechanism
alter reality; to the beholder they look crazy
character defense
patient is rarely aware he has problems but the doctor can see it
Neurotic defenses
alter inner feelings often causing internal distress; either the affect or the context is lost but not both
mature mechansims
integrate reality, interpesonal relationships and internal feelings
the emotional experience of annihilatory panic in which one feels abandoned and unable to survive as a separate other in the world
aloneness
aloneness is the failure in the task of
becoming a separate individual in the woels
the emotional experience of fear and shame that one is only as “worthy” as one’s accomplishments.
worthlessness
worthlessness is the failure in the task of
developing an unshakeable sense of worth as an individual
Is PD a deeply ingrained stable, lifolong, inflexible and maladaptive pattern of behavior of sufficient severity to cause either significant impairment in adaptive functioning or subjective distress
yea
odd or eccentric “weird outsiders”
Cluster A
dramatic, emotional, erratic “emotionally hyperbolic ones”
Cluster B
