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Lecture 9 - Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology (The University of Warwick)
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Lecture 9: Personality disorders
Personality
Global term describing how we cope with and adapt and respond to a range of life
experiences
Inwardly experienced
Outwardly projected
Main features tend to be relatively enduring
Most people evolve through experiences and learn more effective ways of behaving
What are personality disorders?
Fixed, ingrained and unchanging way of dealing with life experience
o Different to how the general population change and adapt their behaviour
Rarely learn to adapt responses
Ability to learn new responses lacking
Introduce disruption and hardship into lives of others
o Sometimes difficult to be around
Frequently cause emotional distress to themselves and those they interact with
Enduring patterns of behaviour that deviates markedly from expectations within the culture
Stable patterns of behaving can be traced back to adolescence or early childhood
Long-standing, pervasive and inflexible
o Has an impact on a wide aspect of individual’s life
Marked impairment in social and occupational functioning
DSM-5 and personality disorders
3 distinct clusters based on descriptive similarities: A, B and C
A = odd/eccentric
o Paranoid
Distrust
Suspiciousness
o Schizoid
Detachment from social relationships
Restricted range of emotional expression
described as ‘loners’, tend to choose jobs that have little social contact, tend
to be unaffected by praise and criticism
o Schizotypal
Acute discomfort in close relationships
Cognitive or perceptual distortions
Eccentricities of behaviour
Difference with schizophrenia – they can still communicate, unlike
schizophrenia who experience word salad, derailment etc.
B = dramatic/emotional/erratic
o Antisocial
Disregard for rights of others
Violation of rights of others
Psychopath/sociopath
Lack of empathy, no guilt
o Borderline
Instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects
Marked impulsivity
o Histrionic
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Lecture 9 - Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Psychology (The University of Warwick)
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Lecture 9: Personality disorders
Personality
Global term describing how we cope with and adapt and respond to a range of life
experiences
Inwardly experienced
Outwardly projected
Main features tend to be relatively enduring
Most people evolve through experiences and learn more effective ways of behaving
What are personality disorders?
Fixed, ingrained and unchanging way of dealing with life experience
o Different to how the general population change and adapt their behaviour
Rarely learn to adapt responses
Ability to learn new responses lacking
Introduce disruption and hardship into lives of others
o Sometimes difficult to be around
Frequently cause emotional distress to themselves and those they interact with
Enduring patterns of behaviour that deviates markedly from expectations within the culture
Stable patterns of behaving can be traced back to adolescence or early childhood
Long-standing, pervasive and inflexible
o Has an impact on a wide aspect of individual’s life
Marked impairment in social and occupational functioning
DSM-5 and personality disorders
3 distinct clusters based on descriptive similarities: A, B and C
A = odd/eccentric
o Paranoid
Distrust
Suspiciousness
o Schizoid
Detachment from social relationships
Restricted range of emotional expression
described as ‘loners’, tend to choose jobs that have little social contact, tend
to be unaffected by praise and criticism
o Schizotypal
Acute discomfort in close relationships
Cognitive or perceptual distortions
Eccentricities of behaviour
Difference with schizophrenia – they can still communicate, unlike
schizophrenia who experience word salad, derailment etc.
B = dramatic/emotional/erratic
o Antisocial
Disregard for rights of others
Violation of rights of others
Psychopath/sociopath
Lack of empathy, no guilt
o Borderline
Instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects
Marked impulsivity
o Histrionic
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