Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Efect personality and every aspect of an individual"s life. Personality disorders are chronic; they don"t come and go originate in childhood & continue throughout adulthood. Personality disorder: persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behaviour results in enduring emotional distress for person afected and/or for others & may cause diiculties w/ work and relationships. Dsm-5 notes having this disorder inlicts stress on afected individual individuals" w/ disorder may not feel subjective distress; however, may be felt by others due to actions of individual with disorder. [robert hare] distress common with antisocial personality disorder, individual may show blatant disregard for rights of others, exhibit no remorse. Many cases someone other than person with disorder must decide if disorder causing impairment in functioning afected individual cannot make such a judgement. Ppl with personality disorders tend to do poorly in tx & data shows ppl who are depressed have a worse outcome in tx if they also have personality disorder.