CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Mental Disorder

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 371
• Professor: Lyons

Document Summary

Depression is the bottom end of the mood distribution. Manic people are at the highest end of the mood distribution. Social anxiety is feeling anxious about other people (how they react to you ), how sensitive we are to other people reacting to us. Anti social personality disorder: social anxiety too low, very low interpersonal sensitivity. Another dimension could be the need to interact and connect with other people. Dependent personality disorder > people who are willing to sacri ce anything as long as they have relationships with other people. Schizoid personality disorder: people are uninvolved with other people and they do not care. Symptom is something that occurs and is reported. A sign is something observable from someone else. A syndrome is not de ned by only one symptom or sign. You have to use your judgment of what is clinically signi cant. It re ects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.