PSY30310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder
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Enduring patterns/inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from societal norms in cognition, impulse, interpersonal functioning, and/or affectivity. The enduring pattern is inflexible and pervasive across personal and social situations. The pattern is stable and chronic and can be traced back to early adulthood or adolescence. No hallucinations/delusions, but they are suspicious of others intentions. More frequent in families with schizophrenia or delusional disorders. 30% of the time schizotypal pd develops into schizophrenia. Aware of the fact that their delusions of reference are odd/unlikely. Conduct disorder before age 15 (truancy, lying, theft, arson, running away) Continuation of antisocial pattern into adulthood (impulsive, aggressive, lack of guilt) Symptoms (at least 3/7: failure or norm-conformance, law breaking, frequent fights or assaults, poor work or financial history, impulsivity, lack of planning, deceitfulness, lying, conning, recklessness, lack of remorse. Usually diagnosed as mdd because patients don"t report behaviour and difficult to treat due to defiance and hostility.
