PSYCH 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
9 May 2018
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Lecture 1 - Friday February 23
Personality disorders continued… All personality disorders share features that are consistent
with trait specified, but a little different.
All Personality Disorders
● Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior deviates from culture. Includes 2 or
more of
○ Cognition: the way the person thinks about the world
○ Affectivity: emotional experience and mood
○ Interpersonal functioning: How well are they getting along with other people
○ Impulse control: how well can they stop themselves or tell themselves to do stuff
● Inflexible and pervasive - meaning you can’t conform your behavior to the situational
demand
● Pattern needs to be stable and of a long duration and in almost all cases it dates
back to adolescence or early adulthood. Has to have been this way for a long time.
Can be too old to develop this.
● Causing them clinically significant distress or impairment
● Cluster A Personality Disorders - These mimic schizophrenia. Odd or Eccentric
○ Paranoid personality disorder - pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others.
They assume that everyone is hostile and nasty. They see other people as
having questionable, evil motives
■ Thinks EVERYONE is like this. E V E R Y O N E
○ Schizoid personality disorder - pervasive detachment form social relationships &
restricted range of interpersonal emotions
■ Does not desire or enjoy close relationships. Choose solitary activities.
No interest in sexual activity with anyone. Lack close friends
■ Uninterested in other people
○ Schizotypal personality disorder - very low level schizophrenia symptoms
■ odd/eccentric beliefs or experiences
● Cluster B Personality Disorders - Dramatic/Emotional Personality Disorders - act in
ways that invite tons of drama in to their life and are super dramatic to other people
○ Antisocial personality disorder - doing harm to society. Disregard for and violation
of the rights of others
■ Fail to plan ahead → bad impulse control
■ Great deal of trouble following rules
○ Borderline personality disorder - instability of interpersonal relationships, self
image and marked impulsivity. Most distressing
■ Feel that the people they love will abandon them
■ Identity disturbance
■ Clinical significant distress or impairment; a ton of stress
■ Super negative emotional response to minor stressful things
■ Only person in this category that seeks help
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Document Summary
Personality disorders continued all personality disorders share features that are consistent with trait specified, but a little different. Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior deviates from culture. Cognition: the way the person thinks about the world. Interpersonal functioning: how well are they getting along with other people. Impulse control: how well can they stop themselves or tell themselves to do stuff. Inflexible and pervasive - meaning you can"t conform your behavior to the situational demand. Pattern needs to be stable and of a long duration and in almost all cases it dates back to adolescence or early adulthood. Has to have been this way for a long time. Causing them clinically significant distress or impairment. Cluster a personality disorders - these mimic schizophrenia. Paranoid personality disorder - pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others. They assume that everyone is hostile and nasty. They see other people as having questionable, evil motives.
