PSYB32H3 Chapter 13: Abnormal Psychology Ch 13 Personality Disorders
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B/c personality disorders episodic disorders over time than some more stable are presumed to be (e. g. , depression), test retest reliability a comparison of whether patients receive the same diagnosis when they are assessed twice with some time interval separating the 2 assessments is also an important factor in their evaluation. Splitting : dichotomizing objects into all good or all bad and failing to integrate positive and negative aspects of another person or the self into a whole. This tendency causes extreme difficulty in regulating emotions b/c the person with bpd sees the world, including himself, in black and white terms. Anthony ruocco supported the conclusion that the processing of negative emotions in bpd in subserved by an abnormal reciprocal association between limbic structures implicated in the subjective feelings that people have when they experience negative emotions and the anterior brain areas involved in the regulation of emotion (this causes intensive negative emotions and persistence).
