PSYC 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Schizoid Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 238
• Professor: Lyubansky Mikhail

Document Summary

Personality disorders: occur when an individual"s personality causes them distress, impairment, and/or potential for loss of freedoms, these disorders are considered to be inflexible and pervasive across a range of personal and social situations. Personality: openness vs closedness to experience, conscientiousness vs carelessness, extraversion vs introversion, agreeableness vs antagonism, neuroticism vs emotional stability. Dimensional models of personality: two stages, determine whether there is personality dysfunction, self, identity, self-direction. Culture and personality: culture plays a large role in determining what is appropriate or acceptable at a given time and place, cultures may differ in, degree of emotional expression. Cluster a: three personality disorders, paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, characterized by odd, eccentric, and/or socially isolated behavior, considered to be the low end of the schizophrenia spectrum. Schizoid personality disorder: pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression, restricted expression does not equal experience, praise/criticism does not impact them. Indifferent to others: preference for solitude, anhedonia.