Personality, Impulse, & Sexual Disorders Flashcards
Disorder characterized by impulsive, unpredictable mood and self-image, resulting in unstable interpersonal relationships and a tendency to see and respond to others as unwaveringly good or evil.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Disorder in which the patient shows a complete lack of interest in social obligations to the extreme of showing antipathy for other individuals. Patients frustrate easily, are quick to display aggression, show a tendency to blame others, and do not change their behavior even after punishment. Also called dyssocial personality disorder.
Dissocial Personality Disorder
State in which the individual exhibits inappropriately suspicious thinking,
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Condition in which the patient withdraws into a fantasy world with little need for social interaction. Most patients have a limited capacity to experience pleasure or to express their feelings.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Uncontrollable impulse to steal.
Kleptomania
Uncontrolled impulse to set fires.
Pyromania
Uncontrollable impulse to pull one’s hair out by the roots. Also called hair-pulling disorder.
Trichotillomania
Condition in which the patient derives sexual arousal from the exposure of his or her genitals to strangers.
Exhibitionism
Reliance on an object as a stimulus for sexual arousal and pleasure.
Fetishism
Sexual preference, either in fantasy or actuality, for children as a means of achieving sexual excitement and gratification.
Pedophilia
Preference for sexual activity that involves inflicting or receiving pain and/or humiliation.
Sadomasochism
Condition in which an individual derives sexual pleasure and gratification from surreptitiously looking at individuals engaged in intimate behavior.
Voyeurism
