PSYC 2300H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dsm-5, Telepathy, Comorbidity

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2300H
• Professor: Agostino

Document Summary

Personality and personality disorders: classification of personality disorders. Some can cause emotional distress: difficult to treat. Impaired self of identity and understanding of yourself. Criteria that distinguish normal" versus disordered" personality: rigid and inflexible. Self-defeating, vicious cycle that perpetuate troubled ways of thinking and behaving. Dimensional view: pds are extreme versions of otherwise normal personality variations. 1: therefore, problems experienced by individuals with pd can be seen as one of degree rather than kind, this is the popular clinical view. Categorical view: pds represents qualitatively different way of relating to others than. Dsm is categorical diagnostic tool- does no examine degree. Two options: you have personality disorder or you do not. Classifying pds: problems: low stability of pd diagnoses, difficult to diagnose a single, specific personality disorder. Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal: oddness and avoidance of social contact, cluster b, anti-social, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic, dramatic, emotional, or erratic, extrapunitive and hostile, cluster c, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive.