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| A heterogeneous collection of psychological disorders which have in common pervasive, lasting, behavioral or thought patters which deviate from the cultural norm. |
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| Why are personality disorders among the hardest disorders to treat? |
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| Personality traits are very, very stable. Fundamental facets of a person's personality really don't change that much without a lot of work. Personality is one of the most stable components of your identity. If it's so stable, it's going to take a lot of work to change a personality disorder. This "work" is a two-way street. You can do whatever kind of therapy you want, but the person must realize that they have a problem, and realize that their behavior is causing the problem. If they're not willing to commit to work on it with you, you'll have a hard time treating that. You can't just give them medicine and make them better. |
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| What axis are personality disorders on? |
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| Theoretic model of personality that examines personality along five dimensions. Introversion vs. extroversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness vs. non-agreeableness. |
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| an awareness of what needs to be done and making sure that you do it |
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| Agreeableness vs. non-agreeableness |
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| Somebody who is more towards agreeableness is someone who is generally easy to get along with. Probably not going to be as argumentative. Tends to be willing to go with the flow. |
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| If you are high in this category, you are willing to try new things. you may even seek out new challenges, new situations, etc. If you are low in openness to experience, you are much less likely to go for those things. Instead, they stick with what they know. |
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| Do people with personality disorders usually seek treatment? |
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| No. 95% of the time they are referred by someone else. |
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| The two clusters of Axis 2 disorders |
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| The odd/eccentric cluster and the dramatic/erratic cluster. |
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| Paranoid Personality Disorder |
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| Highly suspicious of others. Feel like others are out to "get" them, or that other people have a secret agenda. However, they do not have the other problems that go along with paranoid schizophrenia. |
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| Schizoid Personality Disorder |
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| Do not find joy in relationships (friendship or romantic). They don't have many close friends. They have problems relating with other people in a way that would foster close relationships. They come off as dull or bland. They don't show much in the way of emotion. They don't have much personality. They don't stand out. May appear to be aloof, may seem to lack the ability to emotionally respond to another person. Appear to be lacking in empathy. |
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| Schizotypal personality disorder |
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Socially isolated, as with Schizoid. Symptoms often look like very mild symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizotypoal looks a lot like schizophrenia, except that it is not severe enough for a diagnosis of schizophrenia. They may believe that they have magical thinking. Clarovoiant, have ESP, see into the future. Mild form of delusion--compared to schizophrenia.
Another symptom that you see often with schizotypal is they may have recurrent illusions. "I feel a presence in the room. I can detect a force that you can't see." |
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| The "Odd/Eccentric" personality disorders |
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| Paranoid personality disorderm Schizoid personality disorder, Schizotypal personality disorder |
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| Dramatic/Erratic cluster of personality disorders |
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| Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic. |
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| Borderline Personality Disorder |
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| Highly impulsive. Erratic behavior. Erratic emotional swings. Borderlines often have an extremely difficult time with interpersonal relationships. It can be incredibly mentally and emotionally taxing for people to try to deal with them. Their attitudes about people or topics appear to shift over a short period of time. Oftentimes, a borderline who has dealt with it for a number of years without treatment, on one level they may fly off the handle and say "I hate you!" but there's another part of them that doesn't really mean it. 15 minutes later, they not only want to make up, they want to take it back. |
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| Anxious/fearful cluster of personality disorders |
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| Avoidant, Dependent, and obsessive-compulsive. |
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| Histrionic Personality Disorder |
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| Personality disorder defined by overly dramatic behavior, emotional excess, and sexually provocative behavior. |
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| Narcissistic personality disorder |
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| Personality disorder defined by extreme selfishness and self-centeredness, a grandiose view of one's uniqueness, achievements, and talents, an insatiable craving for admiration and approval from others, willingness to exploit to achieve goals, and expectation of much more from others than she or he is willing to give in return. |
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| Antisocial personality disorder |
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| Personality disorder defined by the absence of concern for others' feelings or social norms, a pervasive pattern of rule-breaking, and presence of conduct disorder by age 15 |
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| Avoidant Personality Disorder |
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| Personality disorder defined by aloofness and extreme sensitivity to potential rejection, despite an intense desire for affection. |
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| Dependant Personality Disorder |
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| A disorder in which people are overly concerned about maintaining relationships. People with this disorder often allow others to make decisions for them and are reticent to make demands that could challenge relationships. |
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| Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder |
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| Personality disorder defined by inordinate difficulty making decisions, hyperconcern with details and efficiency, and poor relations with others due to demands that things be done just so, as well as their unduly conventional, serious, formal, and stingy emotions. |
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| Disturbances in a person's ability to function normally sexually |
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| Diagnosis given to people who believe they are people of the opposite sex. "Trapped in the wrong body." |
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| Women are more inclined to purchase what for sexual fantasies? |
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| romance novels (more cerebral) |
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| Men are more likely to purchase what for their sexual fantasies? |
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| Did the first major US study on sexuality in the late 50s via survey method. Might not be reliable, since people lie on surveys. |
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| Married couple who were the first to experimentally look at sexual response/behavior, and the first to look at the sexual responses cycle. |
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| Why might Masters and Johnson's findings be skewed? |
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| They used the volunteer method, which skewed their participants in the college-aged and sexually open categories. |
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| The number one thing to do for someone experiencing sexual difficulties. |
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| Which organ is the most important when it comes to normal sexual behavior? |
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| Treatment for premature ejaculation |
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| Reduce anxiety, and couple's therapy in which you focus on communication. Eventually, the patient will learn to control their reactions. |
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| Relying on an inanimate object to achieve arousal. |
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| Individuals who achieve sexual arousal from cross dressing. |
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| Intense desire to expose one's body to others. |
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| Sexual attraction to unusual objects and sexual activities unusual in nature. |
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| The first phase of the sexual response cycle. Sexual interest or desire, often associated with sexually arousing fantasies. |
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| The second phase in the Sexual Response Cycle. Men and women experience pleasure associated with increased blood flow to the genitals. |
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| The third phase of the sexual response cycle. Sexual pleasure peaks. Ejaculation occurs in men, and the outer walls of the vagina contract in women. |
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| The fourth and final stage in the sexual response cycle. The relaxation and sense of well-being that usually follows an orgasm. |
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| The four categories of sexual dysfunction |
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| Sexual desire disorders, sexual arousal disorders, orgasmic disorders, and sexual pain disorders. |
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| Hypoactive sexual desire disorder |
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| Deficient or absent sexual fantasies and urges. |
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| Patient actively avoids nearly all genital contact with another person. |
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| Female Sexual Arousal Disorder |
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| A woman has consistently inadequate vaginal lubrication for comfortable completion of intercourse. |
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| A man has persistent failure to attain or maintain an erection through completion of the sexual activity. |
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| the persistent absence of orgasm after sexual excitement. |
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| persistent difficulty in ejaculating |
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| ejaculation that occurs too quickly. |
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| Persistent or recurring pain during sexual intercourse. |
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| Involuntary spasms of the outer third of the vagina to a degree that makes intercourse impossible. |
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| being an observer rather than a participant in sexual experience |
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| The ingrained sense a person has of being either a man or a woman. |
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| An individual's self-identified preference for a sexual partner. |
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| An operation removing existing genitalia and constructing a substitute for the genitals of the opposite sex. |
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| A paraphilia defined by a marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification through contact with people defined legally as underage. |
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| Sexual relations between close relatives, most often between daughter and father or between brother and sister. |
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| Marked preference for obtaining sexual gratification by watching others in a state of undress or having sexual relations. |
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| The sexually oriented touching of an unsuspecting person, typically in public places that provide an easy means of escape. |
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| An intense and recurrent desire to obtain or increase sexual gratification by inflicting pain or psychological suffering on another. |
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| An intense and recurrent desire to obtain or increase sexual gratification through subjecting oneself to pain or humiliation. |
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| Domain of childhood disorders characterized by outward-directed behaviors, such as aggressiveness, noncompliance overactivity, and impulsiveness; the category includes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder. |
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| Domain of childhood disorders characterized by inward-focused experiences and behaviors, such as depression, social withdrawal, and anxiety; this category includes childhood anxiety and mood disorders. |
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| Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |
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| A disorder in children marked by difficulties in focusing adaptively on the task at hand, inappropriate fidgeting and antisocial behavior, and excessive non-goal-directed behavior. |
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