PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder
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What is personality: personality is a unique and long-term pattern of inner experience and, personality tends to be consistent and is often described in terms of outward behavior (cid:498)traits(cid:499) These traits may be inherited, learned, or both: personality is also flexible, allowing us to learn and adapt to new environments. For those with personality disorders, however, that flexibility is usually missing. Early notions of personality: in the popular nineteenth-century theory of phrenology, franz joseph. Gall (1758 1828) suggested that the brain consists of distinct indentations on a person"s head. portions, each responsible for some aspect of personality. Phrenologists tried to assess personality by feeling bumps and. Classifying personality disorders: the dsm-5 identifies ten personality disorders and separates these into three categories or (cid:498)clusters(cid:499): The cluster of (cid:498)odd(cid:499) personality disorders includes: schizotypal personality disorders. Odd or eccentric behaviour: paranoid, schizoid, and. Dramaric, emotional, or erratic behavior: antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders.
