PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Phenotype, Etiology, Comorbidity

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Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from cultural expectations. Manifested in 2 or more of the following areas: cognition, affectivity. Emotional reactions to people or in situations. Goals they have for themselves, types of relationships they have. Pattern is inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations. Pattern leads to clinically significant impairment or distress: people around individual are usually the ones who are distressed. Pattern is stable and of long duration; onset can be traced to adolescence / early childhood. Pattern not better accounted for as a manifestation of another disorder. Little insight: into the fact that they are different or the problems it is causing them have it their whole life, don"t know anything different. Ego syntonic : their way of seeing things fit with their goals, values and interests.

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