PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Impulsivity, Psychoticism, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
4 Dec 2014
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Personality disorders: herterogeneous group of disorders that are regarded as long standing, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of behavior and inner experience that deviate from expectations of a person"s culture and that impair social and occupational functioning, some, but not all, can cause emotional distress, people with pd are often rigid in behavior and cannot change in response to changes in situations, patterns of behavior must be long standing, classifying pd: clusters, categories, problems pervasive, and dysfunctional, introduction. 3 key criteria that help distinguish normal vs. disordered personality: disordered personality is indicated by rigid and inflexible behavior, afflicted person has difficulty altering his or her behavior according to changes in situation, person engages in self defeating behavior that fosters vicious cycles, behaviors and cognitions simply perpetuate and exacerbate existing conditions, goal becomes farther away, there is structural instability, fragility to the self that cracks under conditions of stress.
