PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Allison Jane Ouimet

Document Summary

Questions: negative symptoms, look up, catastrophic misinterpretation of physiological or physical symptoms, tolerance or dependence or rebound insomnia, 1-6 schizophreniform 6+ schizophrenia, less than 1month brief psychotic disorder, avoidant personality disorder. Dms-5: persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions and behaviour that results in enduring emotional distress for person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships beginning by early adulthood. A lot of the time people don"t seek help, and they may not feel like something is wrong but more a family presence pressuring them to seek. Paranoid personality disorder (must have 4 or more symptoms) Reads hidden threatening meaning into benign remarks or events. **always suspicious especially in areas where other people would not be suspicious. Schizoid personality disorder (must have 4 or more symptoms) Pervasive detachment from social relationships and restricted range in interpersonal situations. Schizotypal personality disorder (must have 5 or more)