PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Disorder clusters: 100 mc 50 cumulative (textbook and lecture, big picture), 50 new (involves casebooks, nature of personality disorders, enduring and relatively stable predispositions ways of relating and thinking. Cluster a: paranoid pd: suspicion, average functioning, not delusional, can get angry/ be accusatory. Schizoid pd: aloofness, thought to begin in childhood, tend to run a chronic course if untreated (stable patterns of responses) Pd: clash w/ society, not going out with a lot of people = asocial. Mild expression of schizophrenia type: left hemisphere and more generalized brain deficits, 5+ symptoms. Ideas of reference (eg. dogs barking, so your write down the time to let god know you heard: odd beliefs or magical thinking, unusual perceptual experiences, odd thinking and speech, suspicious or paranoid ideation. Impulsivity and irresponsibility: bold = psychopath and aspd, aspd is more observable (aggressive violence, breaking law, lifetime course of criminal behavior in psychopaths and non-psychopaths.
