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A survey in Norway found that this percent of ppl had a personality disorder
13% of adults
ego syntonic
natural parts of themselves
-ppl when personality disorders oftne have
ego dystonic
ppl with anxiety disorders or mood disorders often have
"refering to behaviors or feelings that are perceved to be alien to ones self - identity."

they do not see their behaviors as part of their self idenity and often seek help (treatment) for such feelings to relieve the distress that caused them
cluster A
ppl percieved as odd or ecentric
-parinoid
-skizoid
schizotypical personaity
cluster B
ppls whoses behaviors are oftenly dramatic, emotional or erratic.
_anti-social
-boarderline
-historianic
-naracisstic
cluster C
ppl appear anxious or fearful
-aviodent
-dependent
-obsessive compulsive
paranoid personaity disorder
.5- 2.5 percent of ppl
pervasive suspiciousness of the morives of aothers but without outright paranoid delusions
Schizoid
unknown amount
social aloofness and shallowor blunted emotions
schizotypal personality disorder
-3%
persistent diffucluty forming close soical relationships and off or perticular beliefs and behvaiors without clear psychotic features
personailty disoerders characterized by odd or ecentric behaviors
Cluster A
-parinoid
-schizoid
-SCHIZOTYPAL
antisocial personaity disorder
3-6% of men
1% of women
chronic antisocial behavior, callous treatment of others, irresponsible behavior and lack of remorse for wrongdoing
boarderline
2%
Tumultuous moods and stormy relationships with others, unstable self image and lack impulse control
hisstoric
estimated 2-3%
overly dramatic and emotional behavior, demands to be center of attention, excessive needs for reassurance, praise and aproval
narcissistic
under 1 %
grandious self of self, extreme needs of admiration
Avoident
.05-1%
chronic pattern of avoiding relationships due to fears of rejection
dependent personailty disorder
unknown amount
-excessive dependence on others and diffuclty mkaing independent decesions
obsessive compulsive personaity disorder
1%
excessive needs for orderliness nad perfectionism, excessive attention to detail, rigid ways of relating to others
defining trail of paranoid
pervassive suspicious, and tening to inerterpt others behvaiors as deliberly threatening or demeaning
-excessively mistrustful
-relationships suffer
-can generally maintain employment
-do NOT have parinoid delusions that schizophrena ppl have
-more men diagnosed

UNUSUAL BELIEFS ADN SUSPICIOUS OF OTHERS
defining trail of schizoid personality
SOCIAL ISOLATION
-lacks interest in social relationships
-shallow /blunt emotions
-rarely experience joy anger or sadness
-faces show no emotions
-are consumed with abstrat ideas rather than people
women may marry but remain distanct from partner
may hold outragus wishes
my get attracted to porn
they may be very sensative but cannot express it

LACK OF INTEREST IN SOCIAL ACTIVITY
defiinig feature of Schizotypal personality disorder
ppl have difficulty forming close relationships + ODD behaviors, manerisms or thougts
-anxious in social situations because of parinoid fears not scared of rejection

WIDER RANGE OF OFF BEHAVIORS, BELIEFS AND PERCEPTIONS
may think they feel presences of ppl in room BUT realize the persion is not really there
-highest in blacks
ideas of refrence
in schizotypal
parionoid thinking that they indujge in
-ex: belief that others are talking about them
magical thinking
in schizotypal
ex: beliving that they posess a sixth sense
may attach unusal meaings to words
-they may look forward to these happenings but also know that their feelings arent really happenings just feelings
So they just appreciate them but dont try to fuck with them
DSM's grouping of schizotypal
behavior pattern close to schizophrenia-related disordedrs that includes paranoid and schizoid personality disorders and schizoaffective disorders as welll as schizophrenia.
-may be close to a genetic link
-brain imaging supports that

-it is rare that this later develops into full blown schizophrenia or other disorders
Disorders characterized by Dramatic, Emotional or Erratic behavior
Antisocial
Boarderline
histrionic
narcisstic type

Features of behavior patterns:
excessive
unpredictable
self-centered

anti-social behavior
antisocial personaity
anti-social as in they violate the righs of others and social norms
(including breaking the law)
-impulsive
lack guilt, anxity, remorse
punishment rarely works

-more in men

1% of women 3-6% of men

superficial charm

must be 18 to recieve this diagnosis
("conduct disorder" for younger)

old terms were "psychopath" or "sociopath"

behavior is ...
-amoral and antisocial
-impulsive
-lacking in remorse or shame

sociopath center on a persons social devience

psychopath focus on the idea there is something pathologically wrong with the individuals psychological functing

begins in childhood

antisocial and chrimial behavior decline with age but the underlying traits of the disorder remian even if behaviors have become more normal

been studied the most by scholars adn researchers
sociocultural factors and antisocial personality disorder
most commmon in lower socioeconomic groups
criminality and antisocial behavior
having this disorder increses the risk of criminal behavor

half of prision inmates could be diagnosed with antisocial personaity disorder

minority of ppl with disorder run into massive probelms with the law
two dementions of antisocial personaity
personality dimension

behavioral dimension

-two dimensions are not entirely separate, many show both dimensions
personality dimension
traits such as fake charm, remoreselessness
they have these traits but DO NOT become law breakers
behavioral dimension
antisocial lifestyle
probkems with the law, poor employment history, unstable relationships
Hervey Cleckley
argued that the characteristics that define the psychopathic or antisocial personaity - self centeredness, irrespoeinsiblity, impulsivivty, and insensitively to the needss of others exists in every social status becuase it also includeds traits such as martial prokems , a disreguard for the truth and substance abuse
BPD
characteried by a range of behavior, emotional and personally features

core has to do with self image
(dont know who they are , career, values wise even sexual orienttaion

can't control impulses

feel empty and borded because they can't sustain a personal idenity

cant STAND to be alone

FEAR OF ABONDONMENT

FEELINGS OF REJECTION motivate them

tense and shifting feelings towards others

harbor intense psychological pain

have difficulty regulating their emotions

rejection can induce extreme RAGE

impulsiveness can be suiscide attemtps or cutting


men show more OUTWARD anger and agression trying to ESCAPE FROM TROUBLING EMOTIONS

2% of populations, 75% of diagnosed are women
states BPD goes through
extreams of
adulation ( when their needs are met )
&
loathing (when they feel scorned)
people that had BPD
marylin monroe
Hitler
inpulsive behavior in BPD
spredning sprees
gambling
drug abuse
unsane sex
reacklas driving
bindge eating
shoplifting

=> poor performance in school and social maladjustment in young adults

impulsitivty tends to BURN OUT with age
splitting
how psychoanalysts interpert abrupt shifts in feelings in ppl with BPD

'inability to reconcile the positive and negarive aspects of ones experience of oneself and others
Historinic personality disorder
excessive emotionability and an overwheling need to be the center of attention

from latin histrio = "actor"

dramatic and emotion but their emotions seem shallow, exageratted and volitue

-used to be called hysterical personality disorder

more in women

self centered

want what they want when they want it

hate routine, crave novelity

flirtatious/ seductive - too wrapped up n thermselves to have intimate

relationships

work tends to be where they have all the attention but they lack self-esteem and strive to impress others to boost self worth
Narcissistic Personality disorder
from Narkissos greek myth

inflated sense of self and extreme need for admiration

can organie thoughts and actions well adn can be veru successful

<1% of population

more than half men

fantasies of success and power , ideal love or recnigtoin for brillance or beauty

extreamly senstaive to rejection or criticism

-adopt game-playing style in romantic relationshiips
narcissistic injuries
even the smallest hint of cirticism to narcissistic people which can hurt so deeply and open up past physchological wounds
Personailty disorders characterized by Anxious or Fearful Behavior
Avoident
dependent
obsessive-compulsive

--share a component of fear of anxiety
Avoident Personaity disorder
terrified of fear or rejection so much they dont eventer into relationships hardly ever

equal in men and women

affects between 05-1.0 percent of general

have interest in and share feelings of warmth in other people

fear other ppl seeing them cry or act nervoiusly

stick to routnes

exagerate risks in tryng new things

overlaps with social phobia (most with this disorder also have a type of social phobia)
Dependent Personality Disorder
people who have ecxssive need to be taken care of by others

fear serpration and are cliggy

find it difficult to do things on their own

fear of rejection

more in women than men

underlying feelings of inadquency and helplessness

their passivity encourages further abuse and the cycle continues

linked to depression, bipolar, social phobia and phsycail probelms like hypertentions, cnacner , gastroiantenstal disorders (ulcers and colitis)

liked to 'oral" behavioral probelms such as smoking eating disorders and alcoholism

can be traced to sucking by psychodynamic writers

(newborn baby's seeking of nourishment via oarl means)
food=love

they attrubute their problems to physically rather than emotional causes and seek support and advance from medical exerts not pshycologists
Obsessive -Compulsive Personality Disorder
excessive orderliness, perfectionism, rigidity, difficulty coping with ambiguity, difficulty expressing feelings and meticuloousness in work habits

1% of people

2x as common in men

so rigif it imapires theire life

stingy with money

fear making the wrong choice often

dont compromise insist on doing things their way


overly formal in relationships

difficult to express feelings

hard for them to relax for fear they are spedng too much money

"something can always go wrong" thinking
OCD vs OCD anxiety disorder
OCD personality do not necessarilu experience obsessions or compulsions... if they do they have both OCD personality and OCD anxiety
problems with classification of personality disorders
-probelms distinguhsing personalty disorders from anxiety and mood disorders

-Overlap Among Disorders (comorbidity)

-Confusing Labels with Explanations

-Sexist Biases
labeling a personality disorder
we still lack evidence needed to determine the particular point at which personality traits become maladaptiive to justify a diagnosis of a personality disorder
sexist biasis
diagnosis criteria seem to label sterotypical feminine behaviors as pathological with GREATER FREQUENCY that sterotypical masculine behvaiors.

no "macho male" sterotype
bias per personaility
bias in favor of perceiving women as histrionic
(and with same symptoms)
bais men as having antisocial personailty disorder

Borderline personaity disorder is more classified as a female disorder
main feature of parinoid
excessively mistrustful and suspicious w/o justification
main feature of Schizoid
Detatchment from social relationships
-limited range of emotions
-no unusual thought process
Schizotypal main features
Social/interpersonal deflects with cognitive/perceptual distortions

**possible etoilogic relationship with schizophrenia **
boarderline Main Features
Pattern of unstable relationships, self-image, and affect; marked impusivity
Antisocial main features
Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of rights of others
personality disorders are _____ enduring patterns of ___________ & ________
CHRONIC enduring patterns of PERCEIVING & RELATING
Cluster A
ODD, ECCENTRIC CLUSTER

-Paraniod
-Schizoid
-Schizotypal
Cluster B
DRAMATIC, EMOTIONAL, ERRATIC

-Antisocial
-Boarderline
-Histrionic
-Narcissistic
Cluster C
ANXIOUS, FEARFUL CLUSTER

-Avoident
-Dependent
-Obsessive-Compulsive
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Diorder Main Features
Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental/interpersonal control

-works insteed of leisure
-stuborn
-hardly fisnishes tasks or delays them
Obsessive compulisve personality disorder VS OCD
1. no OBSESSIONS/COMPULSIONS
(if there is denotes both disorders)

2. OCD may not be as EXCESSIVELY PERFECTIONISTIC, RIGID, ORDERLY, ETC.
Main Problems with classification of Personality Disorders (4)
1) Overlap among disorders (mode = 4)

2) Difficulty distingushing between normal and abnormal behavior

3) sexist Biases

4) Confusing labels and explanations