PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Brooks et al. (2016) of 261 corporate professionals, 21% had clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits: borderline personality disorder: neurosis --i-- psychosis. A pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity: unstable, intense relationships; frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. Stress-related paranoia & dissociative symptoms: histrionic personality disorder: A pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. Self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated emotions: uncomfortable when not centre of attention. Rapidly shifting and shallow emotions; suggestible: narcissistic personality disorder: A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. Believes they are special, unique; sense of entitlement; arrogance. Allen frances, author of dsm criteria for npd: trump may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn"t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.
