Personality disorder

The authors of the article, Borderline Personality Disorder: Disorder or Trauma, a Review of the Empirical Literature explored the question of whether borderline personality disorder is a disorder arising out of experiences of childhood trauma. They found that although relationships between specific trauma types and outcomes in adulthood are inconsistent, overall associations between childhood trauma and the development of borderline personality disorder are strong and consistently identified…

Explanation of Personality Disorders: Here you should be addressing how the theory explains personality disorders. In other words, according to theory, why/how do personality disorders occur? According to the social-cognitive theory, maladaptive behaviors and personality pathologies are the result of dysfunctional learning. Theorists argue that like other behaviors, maladaptive responses might also be a result of direct experiences or by exposure of bizarre behaving models. Moreover, Bandura…

1. Definition: o Personality disorder is a psychiatric condition, characterized by the inability to be alone; dependent on others to meet their emotional and physical needs; experience anxiety when they are not around other people, extreme dependency in a close relationship with an urgent search to find a replacement when one relationship ends. 2. Possible Causes/Risk Factors: o The cause is unknown o Risk Factors:  More women than men  Biological factors  Environmental factors  History of…

between a mother and a child is a bond like no other. Mothers play an important role in children’s development in terms on nurturing. From the mother, the child learns a significant amount of social and emotional skills. Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder have difficulties in properly interacting with their children. Their unstable emotional and social behavior reflects in their interaction with their own children. Studies show that the BPD mothers can cause psychopathology in their…

The story William Wilson by Poe is completely plausible. The narrator and main character of the story William Wilson suffers from split-personality disorder. His main part is bad, followed by a hidden good inside of him. Good William is always there to right the wrongs bad William has done. The first school William goes to, he seems to do great in his classes, seeing himself as better than all the other students, except for one. A second William Wilson. This William #2 came to that school the…

According to Blackburn (Blackburn, 2014), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is composed of 4 dimensions. Eminem falls under all four dimensions but there is one that he shines in most: self-absorption and self-admiration. This aspect involves the person being self-obsessed with him or herself. In Eminem’s case…

One reason for this is because many people with these disorders do not seek help until they have had the problem for years, and they still may not recognize that anything is wrong—often, it is the distress of other people in their lives that eventually causes them to seek help. Because of this delay in treatment, it is not easy to study people with personality disorders from the onset of their problem (Durand & Barlow, 2013). However, there is definitely some sort of biological connection. The…

in her house alone for days on end, only occasionally going into the outside world. The only people she interacts with are Joe, Max, and several other old actor friends. Who come by and play cards with her every once in a while. Narcissistic Personality Disorder may stem from genetics of biology, or from a dynamic where the person is overly criticized or adored at one point in their life, usually from a parent. Nothing is mentioned of Norma’s parents, but she got into Hollywood when she was very…

According to our book, Abnormal Psychology Clinical and Scientific Perspectives states, “The main features of histrionic personality disorder concern excessive emotionality and attention seeking.” I believe this case study of Ms. Fuentes provided evidence that one could infer that she desired attention with some type of motif. For instance, Ms. Fuentes expressed shallow emotions, saying she had felt abandon by her neurosurgeon and eventually broke down and cried after telling her story about her…

Personality basically ascribes to individual differences in terms of characteristic patterns of thinking, as well as with respect to feelings and behavior. It’s primarily based on two broad areas, such as understanding individual differences in relationship to irritability or sociability, and the other aspect is founded on how different parts of an individual come together as a whole (Smith, Baron & Grove, 2014). When an individual’s characteristic pattern thinking and behavior deviates…