PS271 Lecture Notes - Magical Thinking, Egosyntonic And Egodystonic, Comorbidity
Document Summary
Personality disorder (pds): a heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on axis ii of the dsm. Individuals would not be diagnosed as having personality disorders unless the patterns of behaviour were long-standing, pervasive and dysfunctional: often co-morbid with axis i disorders. Classifying personality disorders: clusters, categories and problems: the reliability of personality disorder diagnoses have improved because of. 2 developments: the publication of specific diagnostic criteria, the development of structured interviews specially designed for assessing personality disorders, test-rests reliability is also an important factor for evaluation. Page 1 emotionality/neuroticism, lack of positive emotionality, aggressiveness, lack of constraint, and pychoticism: the most widely used measure of personality disorder symptoms is the. Millon clinical multiaxial inventory which is now in its third edition. Issues of self report measures of personality disorders: the goal is to obtain accurate diagnoses; mcmi-iii is best used in conjunction with a clinical interview such as the personality disorder.
