PSY 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, American Psychiatric Association
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People are different and these differences have important implications for mental and physical health. Personality disorders are configurations of traits that cause serious problems for the people who have them and for the people who must deal with those people. Diagnostic and statistical manuel of the american psychiatric. Association describes a wide range of mental problems. New edition of the manual, dsm-5 includes both older, traditional and new, more scientific approach to personality disorders. Purpose of every edition has been to make psychological diagnosis more objective and provide useful categories for various purpneoses ranging from scientific research to billing. All personality disorders have two essential characteristics: Unusually extreme in a way that generally entails distortion of reality. They cause problems for the self or others. Personality disorders are also social and stable. Some disorders are ego-syntonic, which means they are not experienced as problems by people diagnosed with disorders.
