PSYC 3140 Study Guide - Psychoticism, Sadistic Personality Disorder, Soltyrei
24 Feb 2014
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According to the dsm-iv-tr, personality disorders defined as: Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts and are inflexible and maladaptive, and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress . Personality: all the characteristic ways a person behaves and thinks. Personality characteristics are inflexible and maladaptive and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress . Personality disorders are chronic (originate in childhood, continue throughout adulthood) Because they affect personality, they pervade every aspect of a person"s life (i. e. employment, relationships, even where they live) In certain cases, someone other than the person with the personality disorder must decide whether the disorder is causing significant functional impairment, because the affected person often cannot make such a judgment. Many people who have personality disorders in addition to other psychological problems tend to do poorly in treatment have a personality disorder.
