PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Comorbidity, Paranoid Personality Disorder
1 Jul 2016
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Apa defines personality disorder as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual"s culture, is pervasive and inflexible . Deviation is reflected in two or more of the following areas: cognition, affect, interpersonal functioning, impulse control. 10 personality disorders in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Personality disorders are grouped into three personality disorder clusters: odd-eccentric, dramatic-emotional, anxious-fearful. System used in psychiatry to diagnose and classify people with suspected mental illness is flawed in several ways: Issue of comorbidity: patients typically have two or more disorders and the categories are imprecisely defined and have overlap. If two or more disorders exist, then the person is said to have comorbid diagnoses, with greater dysfunction being associated with a greater number of disorders. Personality traits have been shown to be continuous for both general population and clinical samples.
