PSYC 4240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Attention Seeking, Dsm-5, Pome
3 Jun 2016
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Can"t really talk about personality disorders with talking about personality. Funder: personality is an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotional, and behavior. Millon: a personality trait is a long-stranding pattern of behavior expressed across time and in many different situations. Openness to experience (not applicable to all cultures) A personality trait is a long-standing pattern of behavior expressed across time and in many different situations. Personality disorders are composed of personality traits that are. Inflexible (adaptive personality is flexible but not unstable) Enduring and relatively stable predispositions (i. e. ways of relating and thinking) Predispositions are inflexible and maladaptive, causing distress and/or impairment. Coded on axis ii of the dsm-iv and dsm-iv-tr. The dsm-iv/5 gives these general criteria for all personality disorders. An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of an individual"s culture. This pattern is manifested in two (or more) of the following areas:
