PSYC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Personality Disorder, Emotional Dysregulation, List Of Sex And The City Episodes
9 May 2018
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PSYC 350
May 3, 2018
● Updates
○ Final is optional
○ Final paper due by Friday, but if you turn it in on blackboard by Sunday at
11:59pm then 3 extra credit points will be given
Personality Disorders
● Definitions
○ Personality - enduring & pervasive pattern of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings
○ Personality Disorder - personality causes significant functional impairment
and/or distress
● Characteristics
○ Onset by late adolescence
○ Prevalence: 10-15% of population, 30-40% of treatment cases
○ People almost never seek treatment for personality disorder itself
○ Personality disorders are dimensional, not categorical (thus, most people have
at least some non-diagnosable characteristics)
● Personality Disorder Clusters
○ Cluster A (odd/eccentric) - schizotypal, paranoid, schizoid
▪ Not very prevalent for wanting to get help with these disorders
▪ Schizotypal - odd perceptions and beliefs, social discomfort (residual
schizophrenia?)
• Think of this as very low grade schizophrenia
▪ Paranoid - looks like mild version of delusional disorder,
hostile/suspicious
• Angry and hostile, constantly thinking people are hating them and
out to get them
• You can tell that they would have some type of a personality
disorder
▪ Schizoid - looks like autism spectrum; reclusive/little desire for social
interaction
○ Cluster B (dramatic/impulsive) - histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, antisocial
▪ Big personality
▪ Clinically catch attention because they are difficult in treatment
