Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

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Chapter 12 personality disorders: personality disorder = persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions and behaviour that results in enduring emotional distress, when personality characteristics interfere w/ relationships w/ others, cause person distress or in general disrupt activities. Retain more info about each individual: 2. 6% succeed; symptoms gradually improve if survive to 30s. Comorbidity: general population w/ pd is estimated to be b/w 0. 5-2. 5%; major concern is comorbidity. Paranoid personality disorder: excessively mistrustful and suspicious of others w/out justification, do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide i(cid:374) others (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause thi(cid:374)k e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e is out to get the(cid:373) Clinical description: defining characteristic is pervasive unjustified distrust, suspicious in which most other people would agree they are unfounded, bears relationship to two other disorders, 1. Delusional: ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, suspi(cid:272)io(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t reach delusional proportion, another difference b/w paranoid type of sch. And paranoid pd is that form involves other ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hoti(cid:272) s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s like hallu(cid:272)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s (cid:449)hereas para(cid:374)oid does(cid:374)"t.