PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder. Each of these disorders has some of the features of schizophrenia, but people diagnosed with these personality disorders are not psychotic. Their behaviours are simply odd and often inappropriate: cluster b includes four disorders characterized by dramatic, erratic, and emotional behaviour and interpersonal relationships. Antisocial personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder. People diagnosed with these disorders tend to be manipulative, volatile, and uncaring in social relationships and prone to impulsive behaviours. They may behave in wild and exaggerated ways or even engage in suicidal attempts to try to gain attention: cluster c includes three disorders characterized by anxious and fearful emotions and chronic self-doubt. Dependent personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. In response to these inherent problems in the diagnosis of axis ii disorders, a group of expert personality researchers, including john.
