PSYCH257 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psychopathy, El Al, Narcissism
5 Mar 2017
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People with personality disorders typically cause distress for other people. Even though people with other mental disorder such as schizophrenia, depression or other phobias tend to cause distress to themselves. Dsm-5 lists the specific personality disorders according to three broad clusters. Cluster a: odd and eccentric disorders - highest prevalence rate: paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal. Genetic links to this disorder, biological variables such as impaired eye tracking, have also been investigated. Cluster b: dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders - lowest. Cluster b: dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders - lowest prevalence rate: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic. Cluster c: anxious and fearful disorders: avoidant, dependant, and obsessive compulsive. Dsm-5 requires that the client"s functioning does not simply reflect normative responding in the client"s culture but this can be hard with an expanding ethnicity base here in canada. Comorbidity: used to describe the co-occurrence in the same person of two or more disorders.
