PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Timothy Leary, Hans Eysenck
Document Summary
Personality: dsm-5 may include more dimensional aspects. Stables and coherent view of self and others: capacity for intimacy and affliction. Personality disorders reflect a failure to adapt to life"s tasks (dr. john livesley) Adaptive inflexibility: people with an obsessive personality are control freaks, rigid, difficulty adapting. If there is sudden change, they won"t be able to adapt or manage. Vicious circles: a paranoid personality, they don"t get mad they get even. Psychodynamic view: kind of ego defence style gives clues to kind of personality disturbance i. e. : using projection is a clue to a paranoid personality. Two main axes of classifying personalities: dominance-submissive, unfriendly-friendly. Millon took his model, with categories of personality and looked at them in dimensions they"re the current dsm personality disorders: narcissistic, paranoid, schizoid, etc. Mcmi research study of depression: (goldberg and colleagues, 1989) Sample of outpatients receiving cbt for major affective disorder. Identified two groups using cluster analysis-both had depression.
