PSYCH257 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Alienation, Mens Rea, Diminished Capacity

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Personality disorder - a personality disorder is a persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behavior that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships (american psychiatric association, Matter of degree rather than kind typical problems expressed to a greater degree, rather than a unique symptom. Dimensions instead of categories e. g. gender is dimensional maleness and femaleness. Some (e. g. widiger) proposed both categorical and dimensional diagnosis in dsm 5: would retain more information about individual, would be more flexible (categorical and dimensional, avoid arbitrary assignment to a diagnostic category. Universally existent across all cultures, but some cultures are more or less inclined to some factors. Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal: cluster b dramatic/emotional/erratic. Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic: cluster c anxious/fearful. 1 in 10 adults in us have pd relatively common. Gender differences more women with borderline, more men with antisocial variations may be caused by different methodology.