PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Formerly known by psychodynamic theorists as character disorders. Epidemiological studies on the prevalence of personality disorders in. Around 13 percent of people suffer from a personality disorder at some point in their lives. Cluster b: histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial and borderline. Some gave argued for partial genetic transmission that may link the disorder to schizophrenia. Transmission might occur through the heredibility of high levels of antagonism and neuroticism. Moderately heredible, affects 3. 3 percent of population and there is a gentic and biological association with schizophrenia. Antisocial and histrionic disorder are linked because of common personality traits; neutoticism and extroversion; two traits kown to have a partial genetic basis. Someone with antisocial personality disorder is continually violate and shows disregard for the rights of others through deceitful, aggressive or antisocial behaviour without remorse or loyalty. This pattern of behaviour must have been occurring since age of 15 and before that the person must have had conduct disorder.