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Lipoma - Personality Disorders
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Psychology
Graduate
12/02/2008

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Term
Personality Disorder
Definition
Enduring subjective experiences and behavior that deviate from cultural standards, are inflexible, pervasive, have an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, are stable through time, and leads to unhappiness and impairment.
Term
Personality
Definition
A person's characteristic totality of emotional and behavioral traits apparent in ordinary life, a totality that is usually stable and predictable.

Term
Personality traits
Definition
are enduring patterns of perceiving, thinking, and relating to oneself and the environment that are exhibited over a wide range of human experience.
Term
Cognition
Affectivity
Interpersonal Functioning
Impulse Control
Definition
Diagnostic features of personality disorders includes at least 2 of the following:
Term
18
Definition
Antisocial Personality Disorder cannot be made before the age of
Term
Antisocial and Borderline
Definition
Which personality disorders tend to become less evident or remit w/age?
Term
Odd-eccentric
Definition
Cluster A personality disorders include:
Term
Dramatic-emotional
Definition
Cluster B personality disorders include:
Term
Anxious-fearful
Definition
Cluster C personality disorder include:
Term
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Definition
Odd and eccentric disorders include:
Term
Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic
Definition
Dramatic, emotional, and erratic disorders include:
Term
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive-compulsive
Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (Passive-aggressive & Depressive)
Definition
Anxious and fearful disorders include:
Term
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Definition
-Suspects, w/o sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving them.
Is preoccupied w/unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends/associates.
-Is reluctant to confide in others b/c of unwarranted fear that ht einfo will be used maliciously against them.
-Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remars or events.
-Persistently bears grudges.
-Perceives attachs on his/her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.
-Has recurrent suspicious, w/o justifications, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.
Term
General population: .5 - 2/5%
Inpt psychiatric: 10 - 30%
Outpt psychiatric: 2 - 10%
Increased in realatives of chronic Schizophrenics, Delusional Disorder, & Persecutory Type.
Definition
Prevalence of Paranoid Personality Disorder
Term
Schizoid Personality
Definition
-neither desires nor enjoys close r/s, including being part of a family.
-Almost always chooses solitary activities.
-Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences.
-Takes pleasure in few, if any activities.
-Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives.
-Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others.
-Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity.
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