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Lipoma Study Guide Part 2
Personality Disorders
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Psychology
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12/05/2008

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Diagnostic Features of personality disorders: The maladaptive pattern must effect at least ___ areas:
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• 2 areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, impulse control
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Antisocial Personality Disorder cannot be diagnosed before the age of
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• 18.
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DSM IV Personality Disorder clusters:
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Odd-eccentric (Cluster A Personality Disorders)
Dramatic-emotional (Cluster B Personality Disorders)
Anxious-fearful (Cluster C Personality Disorders)
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The dramatic, emotional, and erratic
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• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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The anxious or fearful:
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• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder
• Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
• Passive-aggressive Personality Disorder
• Depressive Personality Disorder
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Long-standing suspiciousness and mistrust of people in general and their motives are interpreted as malevolent:
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
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Trust and toleration of intimacy are areas of internal conflict
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• Paranoid personality d/o
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Characteristics are:

Lifelong pattern of social withdrawal; Discomfort with human interaction; Introverted and bland, constricted affect; Pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships
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• Schizoid personality
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Characteristics:
Are known as odd or strange. Thinking routinely contains evidence of disrupted thinking with: magical thinking, ideas of reference, illusions, and derealization. There is not evidence of a defined thought disorder (psychotic thinking).
Because their thinking is odd their behavior may be odd.
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• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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There is an inability to conform to the social norms that govern behavior.
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• Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Undermine themselves as a goal is about to be realized. May develop psychotic type episodes. Disrupted relationships and marriages.
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• Borderline Personality D/o
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Characterized by unstable: affect, mood, behavior, object relations, self image.
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• Borderline Personality D/o
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Are emotional, excitable, dramatic, extroverted. Often unable to maintain deep long-lasting attachments. Seek to be the center of attention.
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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May be sexually seductive or provocative. May have shallow shifting emotions. Consider relationships to be more intimate than they are.
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• Histrionic personality disorder
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Requires excessive admiration; sense of entitlement; is interpersonally exploitative.
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• Narcissistic
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Vulnerability in self-esteem produces a sensitivity to injury from criticism or defeat.
Definition
• Narcissistic
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Show extreme sensitivity to rejection that may lead to social withdrawal, have a desire for companionship.
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• Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Need guarantees of uncritical acceptance;
Commonly described as having an inferiority complex; Hypersensitivity to rejection by others
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• Avoidant Personality Disorder
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Has difficulty initiating projects or doing things on his/her own; goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others to the point of volunteering to do things that are unpleasant; feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears of being unable to care for him/herself.
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• Dependent personality d/o
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Has difficulty initiating projects or doing things on his/her own. Goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others to the point of volunteering to do things that are unpleasant. Feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears of being unable to care for him/herself.
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• Dependent personality d/o
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Are covertly obstructionistic, procrastinate, stubbornness, and inefficient. Passively expressed underlying anger.
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• Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
oPassive - Aggressive Personality Disorder
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Lifelong traits of depression; are pessimistic, anhedonic, duty bound, self-doubting and unhappy.
Definition
• Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
o Depressive Personality Disorder
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