Personality Disorders - Vertrees/Berges Flashcards
personality disorder
pattern of inner experience - deviates from expectations from culture
diagnosis of personality disorder
2 or more areas
cognition
affectivity - emotion
interpersonal function
impulse control
impair social functionaling
begins adolescence/early adult
not caused other condition
med causes causing personality change
hyperPTH HIV neurosyphilis sleep apnea brain tumor head injury MS huntingtons
personality disorder clusters
A - odd and eccentric
B - dramatic, emotional, erratic
C - anxious, fearful
cluster A PD
odd and eccentric
paranoid
schizoid
schizotypal
cluster B PD
dramatic, emotional, erratic
borderline
narcissistic
histrionic
antisocial
cluster C PD
anxious and fearful
anxious
dependent
obsessive compulsive
paranoid personality
Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are very often interpreted as malevolent
dx of paranoid personality
4 of following
- other lie, harm them
- doubt others loyalty
- fear of confiding in others
- cannot forgive
- see character attacks
- recurrent suspicious of infidelity
defenses paranoid personality
splitting
projection
tx paranoid personality
supportive psychotherapy
low dose antipsychotics
trust is main concern
schizoid personality
pervasive detachment from social relationships
-restricted range of emotional expression
diagnosis of schizoid personality
4 or more of following
- neither desire/enjoy close relation
- choose solitary activity
- little interest in having sex
- pleasure in few activities
- lacks close friends - other than 1st degree relatives
- indifferent to praise
- emotional cold, detachment, flat affect
tx schizoid personality
supportive psychotherapy
schizotypal personality
magical thinking
-appearance and behavior odd, eccentric, peculiar
diagnosis of schizotypal personality
5 of following
- ideas of reference
- magical thinking
- unusual perceptual experience
- odd form thought
- suspicious of paranoid aspect
- odd affect
- odd behavior
- no close social ties
tx schizotypal personality
defense - denial, distortion, projection, schizoid fantasy
support reality based therapy
-low dose antipsychotics
antisocial personality
pattern of exploiting others
-disregard rights of others and society
does not learn from past evidence before 15 irritable and aggressive lack of remorse reckless disregard for safety of self
more in males
substance abuse, depression, suicide
difficult to tx
diagnosis antisocial PD
3 of following
- failure conform social norms
- deceitful
- impulsive, short term thinking
- irritable and aggressive
- disregard safety of others
- fail assume responsibility self
- lack of remorse
age >18yo