PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
5 Jan 2019
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Personality disorders 2: manipulative, volatile, and uncaring in social relationships. Impulsive, sometimes violent behaviors that show little regard for their own safety or the safety or needs of others: overt behavior that is manipulative, callous, and extreme, histrionic personality disorder. Symptoms: uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention** Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion. Summary: a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. Somatic symptom disorder: blurring of lines between histrionic personality disorder and somatic symptom disorder, narcissistic personality disorder. Symptoms: grandiose sense of self-importance *, preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love, believes that he or she is special and unique, requires excessive admiration, has a sense of entitlement ** Introduced in its modern form as antisocial personality disorder in dsm 3 in 1980: cleckley"s criteria for psychopathy.
