PSY 139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mental Disorder, Personality Disorder, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 139
• Professor: Mark Serper

Document Summary

Clinical features of personality disorders pervasive and inflexible stable and of long duration clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning manifested in at least two areas. Don"t normally see themselves as troubled people, egosentonic, let alone a person with a personality disorder. Hard to treat, more difficult than other disorders talked about previously. If you don"t think something is wrong with you, you wont be motivated to change behaviors. Comorbid with another psychiatric disorder (normally depression), which is how they find these personality disorders. Paranoid distrust others motives and they are hypersensitive see self as blameless on guard for perceived attacks by others suspiciousness and mistrust of others. Schizoid emotionally cold impaired social relationships inability and lack of desire to form attachments to others. Oddities of perception and speech that interfere with communication and social interaction. Hard to diagnose and to study the causes of it. Diagnostic overlapping so hard to pinpoint what it is.