Personality disorders Flashcards
What is the ICD-10 classification for paranoid personality disorder?
- Excessive sensitivity to setbacks
- Unforgiveness of insults
- Suspiciousness and a tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous
- Recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding the sexual fidelity of the spouse or sexual partner
- Combative and tenacious sense of personal rights.
- May be excessive self-importance, and there is often excessive self-reference.
What is the ICD-10 classification for schizoid personality disorder?
- Withdrawal from affectional, social and other contacts
- Preference for fantasy, solitary activities, and introspection.
- Limited capacity to express feelings and to experience pleasure.
What is the ICD-10 classification for dissocial (antisocial) personality disorder?
- Disregard for social obligations / norms
- Callous unconcern for the feelings of others
- Behaviour is not readily modifiable by adverse experience, including punishment.
- Low tolerance to frustration & low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence
- Tendency to blame others, or to offer plausible rationalizations for behaviour
What is the ICD-10 classification for emotionally unstable personality disorder?
- Definite tendency to act impulsively and without consideration of the consequences
- Unpredictable and capricious mood
- Liability to outbursts of emotion and an incapacity to control the behavioural explosions.
- Tendency to quarrelsome behaviour and to conflicts with others, especially when impulsive acts are thwarted or censored.
Impulsive type:
- Emotional instability and lack of impulse control
Borderline type:
- Disturbances in self-image, aims, and internal preferences
- Chronic feelings of emptiness
- Intense and unstable interpersonal relationships
- Tendency to self-destructive behaviour, including suicide gestures and attempts.
What is the ICD-10 Classification of Histrionic Personality Disorder?
- Shallow and labile affectivity
- Self-dramatization, theatricality, exaggerated expression of emotions
- Suggestibility
- Egocentricity, self-indulgence, lack of consideration for others
- Easily hurt feelings
- Continuous seeking for appreciation, excitement and attention.
What is the ICD-10 classification for Anankastic Personality Disorder?
- Feelings of doubt, perfectionism & excessive conscientiousness
- Checking and preoccupation with details
- Stubbornness, caution, and rigidity
- Insistent and unwelcome thoughts
- Impulses that do not attain the severity of an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is the ICD-10 Classification of anxious (avoidant) personality disorder?
- Feelings of
- Tension
- Apprehension
- Insecurity and inferiority
- Continuous yearning to be liked and accepted
- Hypersensitivity to rejection and criticism
- Restricted personal attachments
- Tendency to avoid certain activities by habitual exaggeration of the potential dangers or risks in everyday situations.
What is the ICD-10 Classification for Dependant Personality Disorder?
- Pervasive passive reliance on other people to make one’s major and minor life decisions
- Great fear of abandonment
- Feelings of helplessness and incompetence
- Passive compliance with the wishes of elders and others
- Weak response to the demands of daily life
- Lack of vigour may show itself in the intellectual or emotional spheres
- Tendency to transfer responsibility to others.
What are the “Cluster A” Personality Disorders?
‘Odd or eccentric’:
- Paranoid
- Shizoid
- ‘Schizotypal classified w SCZ’
What are the ‘Cluster B’ Personality Disorders?
‘Dramatic & emotional’:
- Dissocial (Antisocial) personality disorder
- Emotionally Unstable PD
- Histrionic PD
- Narcissitic (Not formally included in ICD-10)
What are the ‘Cluster C’ Personality Disorders?
‘Anxious & fearful’:
- Avoidant (anxious)
- Dependant
- Anankastic
What therapy is used for EUPD?
Dialectical behaviour therapy
