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    PERSONALITY DISORDERS

    What is personality?
    In normal people it is flexible-means it adjusts to the environment
    With personality disorder-personality inflexible, very rigid

    egocyntonic- what I think is not in conflict with my personality (disorders)


    - what I think conflicts with my ego (normal individual)

    Classifying personality disorders in three clusters:


    1. Cluster I = odd/eccentric
    1. Paranoid Personality Disorder- paranoia, very suspicious, always looking for
    hidden meaning, people have sinister meaning towards them
    Explanation: psychodynamic- early childhood experiences, very rigid fathers and
    absent or cold mothers
    CBT- irrational beliefs all people are evil and will hurt us
    2. Schizoid Personality Disorder- isolation, socially unadjusted, not as extreme as
    schizophrenia but still delusional, no emotional responses,
    Explanations: psychodynamic- abusive parents, absence of love and nurture
    CBT-maladaptive thinking- addressing them
    Bio-genetics, brain structure, serotonin deficiencies
    3. Schizotypal Personality Disorder- very odd behaviors and thinking
    Explanations: psychodynamic- very abusive childhood experiences, family
    dysfunction,
    CBT- learned behavior- modeling, classical and operant conditioning

    difference between schizophrenia- schizophrenia usually in adolescence and early


    adulthood; in personality disorders, it usually starts in very early childhood
    (information usually gained by another close individual)

    2. Cluster II = dramatic/erratic

    1. Antisocial Personality Disorder – lie, careless, impulsive, reckless, irritable


    (AGG), no moral conscience THINKS OTHERS DESERVE TO BE
    CONNED Men
    risk factor/ conduct disorder + early in life-cruelty
    2. Borderline Personality Disorder- unstable self-image, mood shifts (in-
    out=d-anx) impulsive, irritable, violate boundaries, inward agg. & violence,
    deep feelings of emptiness Women
    3. Histrionic Personality Disorder-extremely exaggerated emotions, the
    center of attention, neediness for space, theatrical, gestures mannerism ???
    4. Narcissistic Personality Disorder- grandiosity, the need for admiration, no
    empathy, convinced of own success/ power, influence, expect constant
    attention/ admiration ENTITLEMENT MEN
    3. Cluster III- anxious/ avoidant

    1. Avoidant= uncomfortable in social situations, overwhelmed by feelings of


    inadequacy, extremely negative to criticism/ negative evaluation
    2. Dependent personality disorder- the need to be taken care of, submissive,
    clingy, fear separation, lack of confidence, others powerful- self week, insecure
    attack
    3. OCPD= “order”, perfection, control, inflexible, not open, inefficient,
    inflexible

    Dimensional classification of p.d by domains:

    1. Negative affectivity- emotional liability, anxiety, separation anxiety,


    2. Detachment- withdrawal, anhedonia, intimacy
    3. Antagonism- grandiosity, hostility
    4. Disinhibition – irresponsibility, rigid perception
    5. Psychotism- unusual beliefs, cognitive perception dysregulated

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