PSY 393 Lecture : Personality Psych
10 Sep 2014
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Disorders of personality: theme = people are different, wide arrange of normal variation, distinguishing between normal and disordered, no boundary line to which you become mentally ill . Impossible to find a specific point when you are qualified as abnormal: combination of several extreme traits, must cause problems! Current system: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm-iv-tr), 2000, standard reference of mental disorders, primary indicators (symptoms) If you are experiencing erratic emotions and you are depressed, you don"t have a personality disorder, you have depression only. It"s a symptom of just that disorder: the enduring pattern is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e. g. , a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition (e. g. , head trauma). Classification system: clusters, dsm iv has 3 clusters a. B, c: borderline , schizoid, & schizotypal. Disorders of thinking and lack of contact with reality: histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, & paranoid.
