PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Personality Disorder, Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology
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Preoccupied with fears of being left to care for oneself: obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. A pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control. Preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, schedules, etc. , to the extent that the point of the activity is lost. Rigidity, stubbornness, perfectionism that interferes with task completion. Excessively devoted to work and productivity: overly conscientious and inflexible in moral and ethical matters. Vs. ocd obsessions (recurrent thoughts, urges, images) & compulsions (repetitive behaviours or mental acts in response to obsessions) Causes of personality disorders: abnormal psychology and psychopathology are highly descriptive disciplines. The dsm does not take formal stances regarding etiology of pds: most research emphasizes either biological or social causes of personality disorders, heritability of pds ranges from 24% to 77%
