PSYO 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder
14 Jan 2016
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Paranoid personality disorder: excessively mistrustful and suspicion of others, without any justification: they assume other people are out to harm or trick them, and therefore they tend not to confide in others. Were said to lack emotional expressiveness and pursued vague interests. Schizotypal personality disorder: people are typically socially isolated, like those with schizoid personality disorder: also behave in ways that would seem unusual to many of us. And they tend to be suspicious and have off beliefs: some consider it to be on the same continuum with schizophrenia, without some of the more debilitating symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions. Borderline personality disorder: the individuals moods and relationships are unstable, and usually they have a very poor self-image: these people often feel empty and are at great risk of dying by their own hands. Histrionic personality disorder: people tend to be overly dramatic and often seem almost to be acting: the term histrionic means theatrical in manner.
