Lecture 10 - Personality disorders

Question 1

What is a significant aspect of personality disorders?

Answer 1

Inflexibilty (compared to most people, individuals with personality disorders have a small number of traits that are particularly prominent and inflexible)

Question 2

What is the prevalence of all personality disorders combined?

Answer 2

9%

Question 3

What is Cluster A?

Answer 3

Odd-eccentric

Low extroversion, low agreeables

Question 4

What 3 disorders are found in cluster A?

Answer 4

Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypical personality disorder

Question 5

What is Cluster B?

Answer 5

Dramatic-Emotional-Erratic

High extroversion, low agreebleness, low conscioentiousness, high neuroticism

Question 6

What cluster can be prodromal to schizophrenia?

Answer 6

Cluster A

Question 7

What 4 disorders are found in cluster B?

Answer 7

Anti-social personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder

Question 8

What is the most stigmatized disorder in the DSM?

Answer 8

Borderline personality disorder

Question 9

Individuals with histironic personality disorder are often described as being…

Answer 9

the life of the party

Question 10

What are the 2 theories that explain narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer 10

• Kohut: Fixation on an earlier, normal stage of development, where other people are an extension of the self (self object)
• Kernburg: Abnormal quality to early relationships makes individual relentlessly seek approval

Question 11

What is cluster C?

Answer 11

Anxious-Fearful

High Agreeableness, High conscientiousness, High Neuroticism

Question 12

What are 3 disorders found in cluster C

Answer 12

Avoidant personality disorder (social phobia)
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

Question 13

What are 3 impulse control disorders?

Answer 13

Intermittent explosive disorder
Kleptomania
Pyromania