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What is the most common personality disorder?
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Dependent pd
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What personality disorder often develops into schizophrenia?
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schizoid
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What NTs are involved with personality disorders?
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Dopamine and neurepinephrine, but we don't know if these change first of if the maladaptive thinking of the PD results in NT change
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Personality disorders are all a response to what?
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Anxiety and stress
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Cluster A
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odd and/or eccentric, include paranoid and schizoid PD- have family history that lacks nurturing
At risk for violence |
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Cluster B
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dramatic, emotional and/or erratic disorders- history of chaotic environment, sometimes abusive
Include antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic |
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Cluster C
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Anxious and/or fearful, include avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive PD- rigidness and control in past
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General diagnostic criteria for PDs
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Individual definition plus the pattern is manifested in two (or more) areas:
Cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, impulse control |
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Defense mechanisms
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When unconscious, unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and impulses threaten to emerge they cause anxiety. The ego protects the self from being overwhelmed by the anxiety with defense mechanisms
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Do schizotypal want interaction?
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they have difficulty with interpersonal interactions b/c cause anxiety, but they desire interaction
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Defense mechanism: undoing
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prominent in schizotypal PD
think (unconsciously) that anxiety causing thoughts will disappear "magically" if they undo them (ex: tap on the wall three times) |
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What is the age/time criteria for antisocial PD?
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Must be >18yo with hx of conduct disorder (CDO) >15 yo
They do whatever they want whenever they want |
