PSY 1205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Cluster a: odd or eccentric paranoid, schizoid & schizotypal. Cluster b: dramatic, emotional, or erratic antisocial, borderline, histrionic & narcissistic. Cluster c: anxious or fearful avoidant, dependent & obsessive-compulsive. Borderline personality disorder: frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, pattern of unstable & intense interpersonal relationships. Identity disturbance: potentially self-damaging impulsivity, recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures or threats or self- mutilating behaviors, affective instability due to mood reactivity, chronic emptiness, anger issues, transient paranoia or dissociation. Dependent personality disorder: requires excessive advice from others in decision making, needs others to assume life responsibilities, difficulty expressing disagreement with others, fears loss of support/approval. Lack of confidence difficulty with independent actions: excessive need to obtain nurturance & support, feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone, urgently seeks replacement relationships, unrealistic preoccupation with fears of having to take care of self. Psychodynamic perspectives: freud- psychodynamic, hans kohut- sense of self and narcist, otto kernberg- defensive mechanism and narcist and borderline pd, margaret mahler-psychoanalysis.
