PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Psychopathology, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Grey Matter
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Personality disorders: heterogeneous group of disorders that are coded on axis ii of the dsm. Regarded as long-standing, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of behaviour and inner experience that deviate from the expectations of a person"s culture and that impair social and occupational functioning. Symptoms of many personality disorders come close to describing characteristics that we sometimes possess from time to time, but actual personality disorder is defined by extremes of several traits and by inflexible ways these traits are expressed. Patterns of behaviour must be long-standing, pervasive and dysfunctional. Diagnosis of personality disorders has occurred since days of hippocrates and were listed in early dsms. In dsm-iii, personality disorders were placed on a separate axis and diagnosis was much more reliable. Since personality disorders are considered to be more stable over time that episodic axis-i diagnosis, test-retest reliability is important in evaluation.
