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| Pride themselves on being rational and objective, but are seen as unemotional, restricted and hypervigilant. |
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Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others.
Assume that most people will harm or exploit them in some manner. |
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| They bear grudges and collect injustices, and show profound anger and hostility when stressed or beliefs are challenged. |
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| Loners who are emotionally detached and indifferent to the world around them. |
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| Little desire for relationships, have few emotional ties, even with family members. |
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| Not uncomfortable with their detachment. |
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| Enjoy solitary pursuits (eg. computer games and puzzles) and prefer working in a non-competitive, isolative job with non-human themes. |
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| Best caricature: single, unfashionable, laboratory-oriented, absent-minded professor. |
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| Cognitive, perceptual, behavioral eccentricities, and pervasive discomfort with relationships. |
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| Embrace unusual beliefs that exceed cultural and subcultural norms (eg. telepathy, clairvoyance, magical thinking). |
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| Speech is vague, digressive, or inappropriately abstract, and may talk to themselves in public. |
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| Under periods of stress, they may decompensate into brief psychotic states. |
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| Repetitive unlawful acts, socially irresponsible behaviors, pervasive disregard for rights of others. |
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| Cluster B - Antisocial PD |
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| Appear unable to project themselves into the feelings of others and lack empathy. |
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| Cluster B - Antisocial PD |
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| Superficially charming and engaging, they mask a life of illegal activity, deceit, promiscuity, substance abuse, and assaultive behavior. |
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| Cluster B - Antisocial PD |
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| 75% of prison population carries diagnosis. |
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| Cluster B - Antisocial PD |
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| Onset of Conduct d/o before 15yo, co-morbid ADHD, Polysubstance d/o, Somatization d/o |
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| Cluster B - Antisocial PD |
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| Most prevalent of the PD in clinical settings. |
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| Cluster B - Borderline PD |
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| Central to this PD is the impaired ability to form stable interpersonal relationships. |
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| Cluster B - Borderline PD |
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| Other salient features include affective instability (rapidly shifting mood swings), impulsivity, identity disturbance (chronic boredom or emptiness), recurrent manipulative suicidal and parasuicidal behaviors (eg. cutting), and splitting. |
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| Cluster B - Borderline PD |
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| Under stress -> “micropsychotic” episodes. |
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| Cluster B - Borderline PD |
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| Reminder: trauma, stigma, transference, counter-transference. |
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| Cluster B - Borderline PD |
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| Excessive emotionality and insatiable need for attention. |
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| Cluster B - Histrionic PD |
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| Overly concerned with physical appearance, poor frustration tolerance (with emotional outbursts), and speech that is impressionistic and vague. |
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| Cluster B - Histrionic PD |
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| Physical attractiveness is the core of their existence: provocative dress, flamboyant mannerisms, inappropriately seductive behavior. |
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| Cluster B - Histrionic PD |
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| May be considered vain and lacking in genuineness by others. |
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| Cluster B - Histrionic PD |
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| Overwhelming and pathological self-absorption. |
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| Cluster B - Narcissistic PD |
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| Grandiose sense of self-importance or uniqueness. |
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| Cluster B - Narcissistic PD |
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| Preoccupied with fantasies of success and feel that the people with whom they associate need also be special and unique. |
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| Cluster B - Narcissistic PD |
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| Beneath the cover of self-sufficiency and arrogance is a fragile person who is hypersensitive to issues of self esteem. |
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| Cluster B - Narcissistic PD |
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| Reacts with intense anger or rage when criticized in the slightest manner. |
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| Cluster B - Narcissistic PD |
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| Excessive discomfort with or fear of intimate and social relationships. |
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| Avoid social interactions as a way to protect self. |
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| Genuinely desire relationships, but struggle due to real or perceived signs of humiliation, rejection, or negative feedback. |
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| Due to pervasive awkwardness and shyness, they suffer from low self-esteem, and avoidant behaviors are difficult to modify. |
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| Clinging and submissive behaviors with a strong desire for others to care for them. |
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| Preoccupied with fears of abandonment |
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| Fear of being alone and will go to extreme lengths to preserve any relationship, no matter how physically or emotionally abusive it may be. |
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| May volunteer for unpleasant tasks, agree with others who are wrong, or look to others for assurance about simple daily decisions, to ensure being liked and cared for. |
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| Perfectionism, inflexibility, and need for interpersonal control. |
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| Cluster C - Obsessive-Compulsive PD |
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| They are so preoccupied with rules, efficiency, and trivial details, and procedures, that the purpose of the activity is lost or job is uncompleted. |
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| Cluster C - Obsessive-Compulsive PD |
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| Inflexible adherence to their own internally strict and excessive standards, and struggle to delegate tasks to others for fear that others will not meet those standards. |
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| Cluster C - Obsessive-Compulsive PD |
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| Don’t confuse with OCD: true obsessions and compulsions that are ego-dystonic. |
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| Cluster C - Obsessive-Compulsive PD |
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