PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder
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Longstanding, pervasive and inflexible patterns of behavior and inner experience. Deviate from the expectations of a person"s culture. Millon"s 3 key criteria that help distinguish normal vs. disorder personality: disordered personality indicated by rigid and inflexible behavior. An afflicted person would have difficultly altering his or her behavior according to changes in the situation: the person engages in self-defeating behavior that fosters vicious cycles. This kind of behavior gets us farther away from our goals rather than closer to them: structural instability . Refers to a fragility to the self that cracks under conditions of stress. Would pertain to a student who functions at a reasonably high level during the early part of a term but loses the ability to cope due to the mounting pressure of multiple deadlines. Livesley, schroeder, jackson and jang: regard personality disorder as a failure or inability to come up with adaptive solutions to life tasks.
