PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Ps101 - lecture 19 - treatment of psychological disorders part 1. Self-important, high entitlement, self-centered, arrogant, exploitive, craves admiration/attention, lacks empathy. Childhood: lie, steal, vandalize, initiate fights, skip school, run away from home, may be physically cruel to others and to animals. Adolescence: often drink excessively, use drugs, and engage in promiscuous sex. Adulthood: can be highly successful, typically fail to keep a job, are bad parents, do not honour financial (or other) commitments or law, no remorse. Impossible, numbness would be down arm as in second picture. Goal and sources for help help change maladaptive thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Relationship between client & psychologist & technique. Underlying assumptions tension between unconscious impulses and the current constraints of life. Conflicts between unconscious/irrational impulses (id) versus harsh social constraints of super ego. Goal: create a level of harmony in the system.
