PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
13 Aug 2013
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Weboption summer 2013 (chapter 13: personality disorders) + (chapter 12: substance-related disorders) ** i"ll be using pd instead of typing out personality disorders all the time. When reading about personality disorders, it"s really easy to self-diagnose because we"re talking about traits that are common to all of us. However, it"s not until they cause distress and disability that they become a concern. They are longstanding, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of behaviour and inner experience: meaning that they are very difficult to treat, even more so than axis i disorders (personality disorders are on axis ii) First time we"re talking about axis ii disorders. Pds are extremes of several traits that we all have. Pds tend to be diagnosed by clusters (listed on slide) Diagnostic issues to be aware of when it comes to pds: Test-retest reliability: the personality disorders that are most reliably diagnosed (most easily identifiable by diagnosticians) are narcissistic pd and avoidant pd.
