PSYCH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 380
• Professor: Tim Hope

Document Summary

What is personality: personality is a unique and long-term pattern of inner experience and outward, personality tends to be consistent and is often described in terms of traits behavior. These traits may be inherited, learned, or both: personality is also flexible, allowing us to learn and adapt to new environments. For those with personality disorders, however, that flexibility is usually missing. Checklist: long-term, rigid, and wide-ranging pattern of inner experience and behavior that leads to dysfunction in at least two of the following realms. The dsm-5 identifies ten personality disorders and separates these into three categories or clusters: odd or eccentric behavior. Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders: dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior. Antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, or histrionic personality disorders: anxious or fearful behavior. This disorder is characterized by deep distrust and suspicion of others: although inaccurate, the suspicion is usually not delusional the ideas are not. Suspects, without basis, that others are exploiting or deceiving them.