PSYCO239 Lecture 3: Midterm #3 Notes
7 Jan 2017
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Personality disorders are chronic, they do not come and ago but originate in childhood and continue throughout adulthood. Because these chronic problems affect personality, they pervade every aspect of a person"s life. A personality disorder is a persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behaviour that results in during emotional distress for the person affected an/or for others and may cause dif culties with work and relationships. The dsm-5 list ten speci c personality disorders. Many people who have personality disorders tend to do poorly in treatment. The issue that continues to be debated in the eld is whether personality disorders are extreme versions of otherwise normal personality variations (dimensions) or ways of relating that are different from psychologically healthy behaviour (categories) Gender, as male or female, as categorical. Height, as in centimetres or inches, as dimensional. In the dsm-5, you are labelled as having a disorder, there is no in-betweens possible when it comes to personality disorders.
