TOPIC 2: PERSONALITY DISORDERS

• AVOIDANT:

  C: Certainty (of being liked required before willing to get involved with others)

  R: Rejection (or criticism) preoccupies one’s thoughts in social situations

  I: Intimate relationships (restraint in intimate relationships due to fear of being shamed)

  N: New interpersonal relationships (is inhibited in)

  G: Gets around occupational activity (involving significant interpersonal contact)

  E: Embarassment (potential) prevents new activity or taking personal risks

  S: Self viewed as unappealing, inept, or inferior
• DEPENDENT

  R: Reassurance required for decisions

  E: Expressing disagreement difficult (due to fear of loss of support or approval)

  L: Life responsibilities (needs to have these assumed by others)

  I: Initiating projects difficult (due to lack of self-confidence)

  A: Alone (feels helpless and discomfort when alone)

  N: Nurturance (goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support)

  C: Companionship (another relationship) sought urgently when close relationship ends

  E: Exaggerated fears of being left to care for self
• OCPD

  L: Loses point of activity (due to preoccupation with detail)

  A: Ability to complete tasks (compromised by perfectionism)

  W: Worthless objects (unable to discard)

  F: Friendships (and leisure activities) excluded (due to a preoccupation with work)

  I: Inflexible , scrupulous , overconscientious (on ethics, values, or morality not accounted for by religion or culture)

  R: Reluctant to delegate (unless others submit to exact guidelines)

  M: Miserly (toward self and others)

  S: Stubbornness (and rigidity)
• • Believes he or she is special and unique
  • Preoccupied with fantasies (of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love)
  • Entitlement
  • Grandiose sense of self- importance
  • Interpersonal exploitation
  • Arrogant (haughty)
  • Lacks empathy


  Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• • Abandonment
  • Mood instability (marked reactivity of mood)
  • Suicidal (or self-mutilation) behaviour
  • Unstable and intense relationship
  • Impulsitivity (in two potentially self- damaging areas)
  • Control of anger
  • Identity disturbance
  • Dissociative (or paranoid) symptoms that are transient and stress- related
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness


  Borderline Personality Disorder

• • D: Detached or flattened affect
  • I: Indifferent to criticism and praise
  • S: Sexual experiences of little interest
  • T: Task (activities) done solitarily
  • A: Absence of close friends
  • N: Neither desires nor enjoys close relations
  • T: Takes pleasures in few activities

  SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISODER

• • M: Magical thinking or odd beliefs
  • E: Experiences unusual perceptions
  • P: Paranoid ideation
  • E: Eccentric behaviour or appearance
  • C: Constricted (or inappropriate) affect
  • U: Unusual (odd)thinking and speech
  • L: Lacks close friends
  • I: Ideas of reference
  • A: Anxiety in social situations

  SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISODER

• • Provocative (or sexually seductive) behavior
  • Relationships (considered more intimate than they are)
  • Attention (uncomfortable when not the center of attention)
  • Influenced easily
  • Style of speech (impressionistic, lacks detail)
  • Emotions (rapidly shifting and shallow)
  • Physical appearance used to draw attention to self
  • Emotions exaggerated (theatrical)

  Histrionic Personality Disorder

• • Conformity to law lacking
  • Obligations ignored
  • Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
  • Remorse lacking
  • Underhanded (deceitful, lies, cons others)
  • Planning insufficient (impulsive)
  • Temper (irritable and aggressive)


  Antisocial Personality Disorder

• • S: Spouse fidelity suspected
  • U: Unforgiving (bears grudges)
  • P: Perceives attacks (and reacts quickly)
  • E: "Enemy or friend (suspects associates, friends)
  • C: Confiding in others feared
  • T: Threats perceived in benign events


  PARANOID PERSONALITY DISODER SUSPECT: