PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chartered Management Institute, Delusional Disorder, Thought Disorder
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Mcmi: million clinical multiaxial inventory, goes back late 1970 based his model of psychopathology and personality disorders. Include scales designed to show the sever pathology that may allow people to meet the plea of insanity or lack of criminal responsibility. Mcmi 3: fixed the small norming sample, we added 1132 items to the norming pool. Increased the norming sample size to 998: this included 8% of people who were in prison, standardized on 1200 patients, 175 and 23 clinical scales. 3 severe pathology scales: schizotypal, on the spectrum closer to schizophrenia, borderline personality, erratic behavior, emotionally intense, self destructive, paranoid, rigid, defensive, mistrusting, belligerent. 7 moderate syndrome scales: not personality disorders, anxiety, somatoform, bipolar manic, dysthymia, alcohol dependence abuse, drug dependence abuse, ptsd. 3 severe syndrome scales: thought disorder, psychotic though and delusions, schizophrenia is a through disorder, this is the most severe, major depression, severely depressed, delusional disorder, beliefs that are not consistent with reality.
