APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: Anita Deshpande

Document Summary

Borderline personality disorder: this with antisocial definitely gains more attention to the public to study and discuss rather than paranoia, unstable. These individuals swing from anger to depression to anxiety to guilt and shame. Feel intensively bored and this forever emptiness that they experience. With this instability, you are probably going to have a very unstable and contradictory image of yourself: change identity often. This intensive fear of abandonment: behaviors range from self-mutilating behaviors to outbursts of anger. How you perceive the person that you interact with. Hyper masculine style and excessive bragging of accomplishments. People who may overshare on social media. Loose boundary with the things that people post. Narcissistic personality disorder: need huge amounts of recognition and attention- its about accomplishments and accolades. In the mind of the person- he or she is the most beautiful person in the world. It is highly rare in regards to prevalence.