PSYC 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Schizophrenia, Factitious Disorder, Malingering
19 Sep 2017
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Primary features: behavioural organization domain, unreliable, reckless, disruptive, aggressive, emotionality domain, deficient in anxiety and remorse, shallow affect or emotional ability. Interpersonal attachment domain: lack of, commitment, empathy, attachment to others. Interpersonal dominance domain: arrogant, deceitful, manipulative, insincere, charming on surface, cognitive domain, suspiciousness, intolerance, poor planning, self domain, entitlement, self-centeredness, self-justification. Legal relevance: qualifies as mental disorder under legal definition, serves to impair both cognitive and volitional functioning, but not enough to mitigate culpability in law. 2: can have bearing on long-term commitment decisions. Internalized behaviour and interpersonal context: males express behaviours through delinquency or criminal activities designed to enhance their status. Irresponsibility: damaging property, psychopathic: repeated promises to replace property, but not done. Impersonal sexual behaviour: dating several individuals over a few months, psychopathic: several concurrent relationships, using others, parasitic orientation, expecting money from parents, psychopathic: exploiting low functioning youth to steal. Week 12-2: the assessment and treatment of psychopathy.
