01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Personality Disorder, Abnormal Psychology, Psychopathology

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:338
• Professor: Professor Lyra Stein

Document Summary

Symptoms of personality disorders can be viewed as maladaptive variations within the domains of traits, emotions, cognitions, motives, and self-concept. Personality disorders as maladaptive variations or combinations of normal personality traits. Several personality disorders involve maladaptive variations on common motives, especially power and intimacy. Cognitive processes can become distorted in personal disorders. Several personal disorders include extreme variations in experienced emotion. Most personality disorders include distortion of self-concept. Social relationships, especially interpersonal and sexual behavior, frequently disturbed or involve maladaptive patterns in personality disorders. Biology forms a building block of several personality disorders. Disorders of personality can provide insight into the normal workings of personality. Pattern of behavior or experience that is distressing and painful to the person. Leads to disability or impairment in important life domains. Associated with the increased risk for further suffering, loss of function, death, or confinement. Abnormal psychology: study of mental disorders, including thought disorders, emotional disorders, and personality disorders.