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What are the buzzwords for cluster A personality disorders? Name the disorders in this cluster:
-- Odd
-- Eccentric
Note: Cluster A are
* Paranoid,
* Schizotypal,
* Schizoid.
What are the buzzwords for cluster B personality disorders? Name the disorders in this cluster:
-- Dramatic
-- Erratic
Note: cluster B are
* Antisocial,
* Borderline,
* Histrionic,
* Narcissistic
What are the buzzwords for cluster C personality disorders? Name the disorders in this cluster:
-- Anxious
Note: cluster C disorders are
* Avoidant,
* Dependent, and
* OC-Personality - D/O.
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- general distrust and suspiciousness (suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her)
-- Paranoid
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- detachment from others, restricted range of emotional expression (neither desires nor enjoys close relationships)
-- Schizoid
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentric behaviors (odd beliefs, magical thinking, and unusual perceptual experiences)
-- Schizotypal
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- disregard for and exploitation of the rights of others (repeatedly performs acts that are grounds for arrest)
-- Antisocial
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- instability in relationships, identity, behavior, and affect (unstable and overly intense interpersonal relationships, highly impulsive)
-- Borderline
Note: SPLITTING
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- attention-seeking with excessive emotionality (uncomfortable when not the center of attention)
-- Histrionic
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- arrogance, need for admiration, and grandiosity (elevated and unrealistic sense of self-importance, lack of empathy)
-- Narcissistic
Note: both narcissistic and Antisocial have a lack of empathy.
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- social inhibition and hypersensitivity to criticism and rejection (avoids social and occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal
contact due to insecurities and anxieties)
-- Avoidant
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- submissive and clinging behavior related to excessive needs to be taken cared of (urgently and indiscriminately seeks another relationship when a close relationship ends)
-- Dependent
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control (preoccupied with details, rules, lists, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost)
-- Obsessive-Compulsive
What personality disorder has these central features:
-- Individual's personality pattern meets the general criteria for Personality Disorder (PD), and traits of
several other PD's, but full criteria for any specific one are not met
-- Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified(NOS)
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Paranoid
GET FACT - need at least 4.
-- Grudges
-- Exploitation expected
-- Fidelity questioning
-- Attacks percieved
-- Confides rarely
-- Threat percieved
Note: Cluster A - odd, eccentric
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Schizotypal
UFO AIDER
-- Unusual perceptions
-- Friendless - except family
-- Odd beliefs, thinking, speech
-- Affect inappropriate, constricted
-- Ideas of reference
-- Doubts others = suspicious
-- Eccentric
-- Reluctant socially
Note: Cluster A - odd, eccentric
Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous phenomena in the world refer to them directly or have special personal significance: 'the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Schizoid
SIR SAFE
-- Solitary
-- Indifferent
-- Relationship-less
-- Sex unintersting
-- Activities uninteresting
-- Friends - lacking
-- Emotions - lacking
Note: Cluster A - odd, eccentric
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Antisocial
CALLOUS MAN
-- Conduct d/o by age 15; Currenlty >18
-- Antisocial/ Arrest
-- Lies
-- Lacunae - like a hole - no superego/ conscience
-- Obligations not honored
-- Unstable
-- Safety ignored
-- Money probs
-- Aggressive/ Assaults
-- Not exclusively in szhizophrenia or mania
Note: Cluster B Dramatic, Erratic
Note: superego - The part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers.
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
--Borderline
I RAISED A PAIN
-- Identity issues
-- Relationships a wreck
-- Abandonment avoided
-- Impulsive
-- Suicide gestures - may be a cutter
-- Emptiness
-- Dissociative
-- Affect unstable
-- Paranoid
-- Anger
-- Idealization --> Devaluation = Splitting
-- Negativistic
Note: Cluster B Dramatic, Erratic
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Histrionic
I CRAVE SIN
-- Inappropriate
-- Center of attention
-- Relationships - jumps in
-- Appearance
-- Vulnerable to suggestion
-- Emotions exaggerated
-- Shallow
-- Impressionistic speech - lacks detail
-- Novelty Needed
Note: Cluster B Dramatic, Erratic
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Narcissistic
A FAME GAME
-- Admiration required
-- Fantasies about success
-- Arrogant
-- Manipulative
-- Envious
-- Grandiose
-- Associates with celebrities
-- Me first attitude
-- Empathy lacking
Note: Cluster B Dramatic, Erratic
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Avoidant
RIDICULE
-- Restrained
-- Inhibited
-- Disapproval expected
-- Inadequate view of self
-- Criticism expected
-- Unwilling to get involved
-- Longs for attachment to others
-- Emarrassment is feared
Note: Cluster C anxiety
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
-- Dependent
DARN HURT
-- Disagreement avoided
-- Advice needed
-- Responsibility delegated
-- Nurturance Needed
-- Helpless alone
-- Unrealistic anxiety about self care
-- Relationships sought desperately
-- Tasks hard to initiate
Note: Cluster C anxiety
What is the Mnemonic for the following personality disorder?
--Obsessive compulsive
LOW MIRTH
-- Leisure minimal
-- Organizational focus
-- Work predominates
-- Miserly
-- Inflexible about rules
-- Rigid
-- Task completion impaired by perfectionism
-- Hoarder
Note: Cluster C anxiety
Note: Mirth = Amusement, esp. as expressed in laughter
What personality disorder may go on to develop schizophrenia?
-- 10% of schizotypal --> schizophrenia
What defense mechanism is used by this personality D/O?
-- Paranoid
-- projection
What defense mechanism is used by this personality D/O?
-- Schizotypal
-- Denial
-- Projection
Note: the woman in Poltergeist movie
What defense mechanism is used by this personality D/O?
-- Schizoid
-- Isolation of Affect
Note: look aspbergery or autistic.
Note: Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns.
Is this personality D/O ego-syntonic or ego-dystonic?
-- Paranoid
-- Ego-syntonic
What differentiates Schizoid from Schizotypal?
-- Schizoid: = Clint eastwood not the poltergeist lady.
* social detachment
* limited range of emotion
WITHOUT - other striking communicative or behavioral eccentricities. (like you would see in Schizotypal).
Note: except Clint Eastwood expressed a desire to have sex and these people aren't interested.
Note: Think of schizotypal as Schizoid (+) disorder. because it has more letters.
Is this personality D/O ego-syntonic or ego-dystonic?
-- Schizoid
-- Ego-syntonic
Is this personality D/O ego-syntonic or ego-dystonic?
-- Schizotypal
-- Ego-syntonic
Is this personality D/O ego-syntonic or ego-dystonic?
--Avoidant
-- Ego-dystonic
Whan gender is more likely to have avoidant personality d/o?
-- Men and women equally.
Whan gender is more likely to have Dependent personality d/o?
-- Diagnosed in women more than men
What Developmental issues are seen in people with Dependent personality disorder?
-- Difficulties in the process of separation- individuation during the toddler stage of psychosocial development can lead to difficulties with excessive dependence.
May have had clingy, overprotective parents or had a chronic illness as a child.
Which personality disorder has an increased incidence among first degree relatives?
-- Antisocial (5x)
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