Personality Disorders
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Personality Disorders | Chronic interpersonal difficulties and problems with one's identify or sense of self |
| Paranoid Personanlity Disorder | Pervasive suspiciousness and distrust of others, leading to numerous interpersonal difficulties |
| Schizoid personality disorder | unable to form social relationships and lack much intrest in doing so. |
| Schizotypal personality disorder | Simliar to Schizoid personality, except they have odd thought patterns, and distorted speech, and paranoid beliefs |
| histrionic personality disorder | Excessive attention-seeking behavior and emotionality are the key traits of these people |
| Narcissistic personality disorder | Exaggerated sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with being admired, lack of empathy for the feelings of others |
| antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) | continually violate and show disregard for the rights of others through deceitful, aggresive, or antisocial behavior |
| Borderline personality disorder | characterized by impulsivity and instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and moods |
| avoidant personality disorder | Social inhibited and introverted, leading to a life time of limited social relationships, hyper sensitive to criticism |
| Dependent personality disorder | Show an extreme need to be taken care of, which leads to clinging and submissive behavior |
| Obessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) | Perfectionism and excessive concern with maintaining order and control. Preoccupied with trivial details. |
| Passive-aggressive personality disorder | Show a passive resistance to demands in social or work situations. They can range from simple resistance to fulfilling routine tasks to fufilling routine tasks. or alternating between defiance and submission |
| Depressive personality disorder | Their usual mood state is one of unhappiness, gloom, dejection, feeling inadequate, worthless, remorseful or guilty |
| Dialectical behavior therapy | Cognitive and behavioral therapy specifically adapted for treating borderline personality disorder. |
| Psychopathy | a condition that invovles features of antisocial personality disorder such as lack of empathy |
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