PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Impulsivity, Pyromania, Trichotillomania
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You can treat them but they aren"t going away, they are part of your permanent mental retardation) person. Often ego-syntonic: they are no longer in an axis system on dsm-v b/c there is only one axis, person may not see a problem. Everyone around sees them as a problem they may see it as a problem for other people, but its not a problem for themselves they are quite happy with the personality they have inflexible. Begin early in life and remain stable: not contextual or transient. 10 disorders organized into 3 clusters: cluster a: odd or eccentric. Paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal: cluster b: dramatic, emotional, or erratic. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is not the same as ocd: this is organized differently in dsm-v but they all remain, **usually the age of onset for these is late adolescence/early adulthood see hidden messages in benign comments. Paranoid personality disorder suspicious of other"s motives interprets actions of others as deliberately demeaning/threatening.
