PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mood Disorder, Neurosis, Histrionic Personality Disorder

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 325
• Professor: Naomi Koerner

Document Summary

Personality trait: complex pattern of behaviour, thoughts, feelings that"s stable across time and across many situations. But personality isn"t always stable and that"s normal. Personality disorder dsm iv: long standing patterns of maladaptive behaviour, thoughts, feelings. Friends, family, partner: symptoms present in adolescents, axis ii vs. axis i. Ii is for disorders that are stable and not able to fully treat. I is for disorders that can be treated and are acute. Dsm iv had personality disorder in axis ii. Lack of welfare of others: c- anxious/ fearful. Need things to be in certain ways, organized. Distinguishing normative vs. pathological personality: how patient acts inside office may not be how they act outside, the personality doesn"t emerge till a while, the way someone acts is global. They act like that all the time: reactions are usually to specific things. They need to be like this for everything to count as a disorder.