personality disorder

• Personality Disorder


  -          identified by a pervasive pattern of experience and behavior that is abnormal with respect to any two of the following:

  -    thinking, mood, behavior, personal relations, and the control of impulses

  -          the character of a person is shown through his or her personality by the way an individual thinks, feels, and behaves

  -    when the behavior is inflexible, maladaptive, and antisocial, then that individual is diagnosed with a personality disorder
• Personality Disorder


  -          the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders DSM-IV-TR, published by the american psychiatric association, defines personality disorder as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviated markedly from the expectation of the individual’s culture

  -    is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment
• Personality Disorder


  -          according to dr sam vaknin, author of malignant self love-narcissism revisited, individuals with personality disorders have many things in common:

  -    self centeredness

  -    lack of individual accountability

  -    lack of perspective; taking and empathy

  -    manipulative and exploitative behavior

  -    unhappiness

  -    vulnerability to other mental disorders

  -    distorted superficial understanding of self and other’s perceptions

  -    socially maladaptive

  -    no hallucinations, delusions, or thought disorders
• Antisocial Personality Disorder


  -          characterized as lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture, marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules

  -          sometimes, they are often called as psychopaths or sociopaths
• Avoidant Personality Disorder


  -          they are marked manifestations of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extremely sensitive to criticism
• Borderline Personality Disorder


  -          lack of one’s own identity, with rapid change in mood, intense unstable interpersonal relationships, marked impulsively, instability in affect and in self image
• Dependent Personality Disorder


  -          the person suffers may feel extremely need of other people, to a point where the person is unable to make any decisions or take an independent stand on his or her own

  -          fear of separation and submissive behavior

  -          there is marked lack of decisiveness and self confidence
• Dependent Personality Disorder


  -          the person suffers may feel extremely need of other people, to a point where the person is unable to make any decisions or take an independent stand on his or her own

  -          fear of separation and submissive behavior

  -          there is marked lack of decisiveness and self confidence
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder


  -          behavior or a fantasy of grandiosity is present, a lack of empathy, a need to be admired by other, an inability to see the viewpoint of others, and hypertensive to the opinions of others
• Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder


  -          characterized by perfectionism and inflexibility

  -          preoccupation with uncontrollable patterns of thoughts and action
• Paranoid Personality Disorder


  -          marked distrust of others, including belief, without reason, that others are exploiting, harming, or trying to deceive him or her

  -          lack of trust, belief of someone’s betrayal, belief in hidden meanings, unforgiving and grudge holding
• Schizoid Personality Disorder


  -          primarily characterized by a very limited range of emotion, both in expression of and experiencing

  -          indifferent to social relationships
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder


  -          the person shows peculiarities of thinking, odd beliefs, and eccentricities of appearance, behavior, interpersonal style, and thought like believing in psychic phenomena and having magical powers