Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Hans

Document Summary

I need it for : dysfunctional: because nothing is ever good enough, i never finish anything . Why diagnose personality disorders: problematic in their own right, high comorbidity rates, better understanding of other comorbid mental disorders. Important implications for planning treatment: ego-syntonic - resistant to change (e. g. this isn"t an illness, its who i am, prevalence: 6-9% Clusters of pd"s in dsm-5: cluster a: odd, eccentric behaviour (weird, paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, cluster b: dramatic, emotional, erratic behaviour (wild, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, cluster c: anxious, fearful behaviour (withdrawn, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, mad, bad and sad. In their own social bubble > don"t care what others think. Ideas of reference, unusual perceptual experiences: not hallucinations, but something being interpreted differently > more to do with cognitive thought, odd speech- vague, overelaborate, stereotyped. Instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, emotions: wildly fluctuation ups and downs.