PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Personality is a unique and long-term pattern of inner experience and. Personality tends to be consistent and is often described in terms of (cid:498)traits(cid:499) 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. In the popular nineteenth-century theory of phrenology, franz joseph gall responsible for some aspect of personality. The dsm-5 identifies ten personality disorders and separates these into (1758 1828) suggested that the brain consists of distinct portions, each personality by feeling bumps and indentations on a person"s head. three categories or (cid:498)clusters(cid:499): (cid:498)odd(cid:499) personality disorders. The cluster of (cid:498)odd(cid:499) personality disorders includes: (cid:498)odd(cid:499) personality disorders. The proposed explanations of this disorder, like those of most other personality disorders, have received little systematic research demanding parents. Psychodynamic theorists trace the pattern back to early interactions with.
