PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Paranoid Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Personality disorders: a pattern in the personality that involves unchanging, maladaptive traits that causes great distress or an inability to get along with others. Not caused by medical conditions, stress, or situations that involve temporary changes in behaviour. Eleven disorders organized into three clusters: cluster a: odd or eccentric [paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, cluster b: dramatic, emotional, or erratic [antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, cluster c: anxious or fearful [avoidant, depended, and obsessive- compulsive] Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by unreasonable, excessive suspiciousness and mistrust, and irrational feelings of being persecuted by others. Narcissistic personality disorder: characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-absorption, entitlement. Borderline personality disorder: characterized by intense by unstable relationships, fear or abandonment by others, unrealistic self-image, and emotionally volatility. Genetic influences: psychological responses to threat of punishment, empathy, and emotions such as anxiety or fear that can be classically conditioned are different between apd and non-apd groups.
