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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| Pervasive, persistent disregard for the the rights of others. Antisocial behavior that starts in childhood. |
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| Avoidant Personality Disorder |
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| An enduring pattern of thinking and behavior that is characterized by pervasive social discomfort, fear, and timidity. Socially isolated outside family, want to be liked but hurt by little stuff. |
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| Borderline Personality Disorder |
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| pervasive instability in mood, self image and interpersonal relationships. Avoid abandonment, vacillate between extreme positive and negative |
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| Cross-cultural Psychology |
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| study of the way human behavior and mental processes are influenced by social and cultural factors. |
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| Dependant Personality Disorder |
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| dependant and submissive behavior. Need advice and reassurance and feel anxious and helpless when alone. |
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| pattern of thinking and behavior that is characterized by excessive emotionality and attention seeking. self centered vain demanding emotions shallow and vacillate between erradically |
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| Impulse Control Disorders |
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| A disorder characterized by failure to resist an impulse or temtation to perform some plesurable or tension-releasing activity that is harmful to one's self or others. Klepto and pyro manias |
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| thinking and behavior that is characterized by pervasive grandiosity. preoccupied with own achievments and abilities |
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| perfectionism and inflexability. Morals, effiency, conscientious, moralistic and judgmental. |
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| Paranoid Personality Disorder |
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| tendency to be inappropriately suspiscious of others motives and behaviors. Expect that others are trying to harm them and take extaordinary precautions to avoid such exploitation. |
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| enduring patterns of perceiving relating to and thinking about the environment and oneself, which are exhibited in in a wide range of important social and personal contexts. |
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| Inflexible and maladaptive patterns of personality that begin by early adulthood and result in either social or occupational problems or distress to the individual. |
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| another term for antisocial personality disorder. Cleckley's definition of of the concept which includes disregard for truth, lack of empathy, and inability to learn from experience. |
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| pervasive indifference to people coupled with a diminished range of emotional expression and experience. Prefer isolation |
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| pattern of discomfort with other people coupled with peculiar thinking and behavior. cognitive disturbances, maybe part of schizophrenic spectrum |
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| Depersonalization Disorder |
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| Dissociative Disorder characterized by feelings of being detatched from one's self. Floating above body or watching yourself act. |
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| occurs within the first four weeks after trauma and includes PTSD symptoms and dissociation. |
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| defined by symptoms of reexperiencing an event, avoidance, increased autonomic arousal or anxiety with symptoms lasting more than a month. |
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| Inability to recall extensive and important personal information; a response to traumatic experience (or perhaps extreme stress). |
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| sudden, unplanned (but purposeful) travel away from home, inability to recall the past and confusion about identity or assumption of a new one. |
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| two or more distinct personality states in an individual that take control over behavior with some memory loss occuring between personalities. |
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| Cluster A (Odd and Eccentric) |
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| paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal. Odd and Eccentric behavior |
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| Cluster B (Dramatic, Emo, or Erratic) |
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| Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, and Borderline |
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| Cluster C (Anxious or Fearful) |
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| mood disorder with no specified duration. Manic episode necessary for diagnosis and Major Depressive episodes also commonly experienced but not necessary. |
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| Mood disorder with no terminal duration. Hypomanic episode (4-6 days) and Major depressive episode necessary for diagnosis. |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Mood disorder with no minimal or terminal time limits. At least one major depressive episode necessary for diagnosis and a lack of manic and hypomanic episodes. |
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| Less severe but more chronic mood disorder. Must persist for at least two years and a depressed mood more days than not. |
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| chronic but less severe mood swings. 2 yrs of numerous hypomanic and depressed episodes but never any MDE's or manic episodes. |
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| Hallucinations and delusions that persist outside of mood episodes. Manic/Depressive/Mixed moods, one month w/ active symptoms and >2wks with active symptoms outside mood episode |
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| Greater than one month of non-bizarre delusions. No decline in functioning. |
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| One month or more of active sxs (hallucinations, delusions, negative sxs), less than 6 months of overall decline in functioning. |
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| Positive and negative sxs (greater than one month) decline in overall functioning greater than 6 months |
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| People who exhibit psychotic sxs for at least one day but less than a month. person has same level of functioning after the sxs disappear |
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| a marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable, cued by the presence of a specific object or situation. |
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| defined by the presence of obsessions or compulsions (maybe both) |
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