01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Personality Disorder, Egosyntonic And Egodystonic, Comorbidity
19 Nov 2020
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Personality refers to enduring patterns of thinking and behavior that define the person and distinguish him or her from other people. Personality helps anchor and facilitate social interactions. When it goes awry, it can prevent people from forming and maintaining close relationships. The line between personality pathology and eccentricity is difficult to define. People with personality disorders tend to make their problems worse by responding in ways that do not suit the social challenges that they face. An individual must meet the criteria for the general definition of a personality disorder (which applied to all 10 subtypes) and the specific criteria for a particular disorder. Must be an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the expectations of an individual"s culture. 1) inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations. 2) the source of clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
