PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Thought Disorder, Pathological Lying, Telepathy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

Personality is the characteristic ways people normally think, feel, and behave. Emotions and emotional regulation: anger, sadness, happiness, anxiety , over vs. under regulated. Coping style and effectiveness: internalizing vs externalizing, defence mechanisms (adaptive vs. maladaptive) Self: self esteem, self con dence, identity is stability of the self. Cognitive style: vague vs. detail oriented (rigid) The big 5 dimensions of personality are: Quality of attachment relationships, and history and duration of romantic relationships. Changing patterns of relationships may be a focus of therapy. Will be related to types of transferences, ability to form an alliance, possibility of alliance ruptures. Greater relationship disturbance may require more focus in therapy on the alliance. Ability to feel anger vs love, sadness vs happiness. Alliance may be affected by withdrawal (low range of emotions) or confrontation ruptures (anger) Over-controlled (avoidant style) vs under-controlled (anxious style) May determine need to focus therapy on experiencing emotions (avoidant style) vs distancing from emotions (anxious style)