PSY 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Psychology - A&S
• Course: PSY 262
• Professor: Crowell Katherine

Document Summary

Personality psychopathology: introduction to personality, personality answers the question of who a person is, children have differences in temperament from birth, different levels of reactivity to outside stimulation, personality trait. Tendency to feel, perceive , behave and think in a relatively consistent manner: personality psychopathology, most people are flexible in responding to life situations. Shy people are not necessarily shy in all situations: individuals with personality psychopathology, rigid, inflexible patterns of responding. I am not hostile, they are : schizoid personality disorder, pervasive detachment from social relationships, restricted range of emotions in interpersonal settings. Some are subject to recurrent illusions: abnormalities in cognitive processing, many characteristics resemble schizophrenia, few individuals seek therapy, cluster b- disorders characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors, antisocial personality disorder. Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others: must have occurred since age 15. Lack of anxiety and guilt over failure to conform to social or legal codes.