PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY230H1
• Professor: Professor Walker

Document Summary

Reduced brain volume in several brain regions that are involved in emotion regulation. World is dangerous , i am powerless and vulnerable , i am inherently unacceptable . Focuses on developing a coherent sense of self. Often engage in self-dramatization, exaggerated expression of emotions, flamboyant acts or flirtatious behaviours. Causes include autonomic or emotional excitability and parental reinforcement. Psychoanalytic therapies focus on determining why client craves attention. Pervasive pattern of grandiosity, (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration, and lack of empathy. Require constant attention and approval, have difficulty accepting personal criticism, overestimate talents and importance, sense of entitlement, which can include unreasonable expectations. Psychological factors such as parental models and certain cognitions. May focus on building empathy and reducing self-involvement. Pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. Intense fear or humiliation and rejection, negative sense of self, low self-esteem, social ineptness, and self-blame.