PSYC 3230 Lecture Notes - Dysphoria, Schizophrenia, Binge Eating
10 Sep 2013
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Enduring pattern of inflexible and maladaptive thinking, feeling, and acting that cause significant subjective distress and/or impairment in social or occupational functioning. Contrasted with personality traits: pattern of experiencing and interacting with environment and other people. Enduring pattern leads to distress, impairment in important areas in functioning or causes others distress. Pattern not due to substance abuse or a general medical condition. Being self-absorbed, prone to exaggerated importance of events. Suspects that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her. Preoccupied with unjustified doubts about trustworthiness of friends and others. Reluctant to confide in others fearing any information will be used maliciously against him or her. Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events. Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family. Little or no interest in having sexual experiences with another person. Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives. Greater association among biological relatives of schizophrenic patients.
