PSY240H1 Chapter : Ch12 Textbook Notes
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Personality is all the ways we have of acting, thinking, believing, and feeling that makes each of us unique. A personality trait is a complex pattern of behaviour, thought, and feeling that is stable across time and many situations. Personality disorder is a long-standing pattern of maladaptive behaviours, thoughts, feelings. Adult must have shown these symptoms since adolescence or early adulthood. Dsm-iv-tr places personality disorders on axis ii. People diagnosed with a personality disorder often experiences an acute disorder at sometime in their life. Three clusters: odd/eccentric behaviour and thinking, dramatic, erratic, emotional behaviour and interpersonal relationships, and anxious and fearful emotions and chronic self-doubt. Substantial evidence from john livesley s and others work that several disorders recognized by the dsm-iv-tr represent extreme versions of normal personality traits. Demonstrated that all dsm axis ii disorders can be represented by a restricted list of normal personality traits and much of overlap is due to common underlying traits.
