PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pathological Jealousy, Dsm-5, Personality Disorder
30 Mar 2016
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Enduring patern of experience and behaviour that difers greatly from the expectaions of a person"s culture that impacts: thoughts, emoion, interpersonal relaionships, behaviour. As categories: you either have it or you don"t. Many traits associated with personality disorders are normally distributed: thus certain behaviours and certain traits in certain amounts equate to personality disorder manifestaion. Criteria for all mental illness outlined in the diagnosis and staisical manual (dsm) for mental. Personality disorders diagnosed based on the degree of impairment in the following areas: people"s level of impairment in personality funcioning, level of impairment across diferent personality traits. Detached from / indiferent to social relaionships. Poor response to social cues (may appear socially inept) Appears diferent" and does not conform to social norms. Opinions shallow and malleable: narcissisic pd. Low insight into other peoples" feelings or needs. Disregard for safety of self or others. Excessive need to be taken care of by others.
