PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Reduced Affect Display
5 Jan 2019
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Stuck in a pattern of thinking, behaving, and interacting with the environment in a way that is maladaptive. Impulse control: personality clusters, cluster a: odd-eccentric personality disorders. Symptoms are similar to those for schizophrenia, including inappropriate or flat affect, odd thought or speech patterns, and paranoia: more men than women across the board. Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity ** Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives. Individuals do not lose type with reality, do not become psychotic (know who they are, where they are, etc. ) Symptoms: odd or unusual behavior*, could just be how someone dresses, walks, talks, etc. Ideas of reference: misinterprets benign things in the environment and interprets it as related to them. Someone leaves during lecture to go to bathroom, this person thinks its because of them: odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior, unusual perceptual experiences*, odd thinking and speech**
