Personalaity Disorders

A personality disorder states that the pattern of inner experience and bx deviates from expectations of the individual’s (not the therapist’s) culture. This could be in cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control.

Cluster A Personality Disorders:

                Paranoid Personality D/o – suspiciousness of others (w/o basis)

                Schizoid Personality D/o – detachment from social relationship and restricted emotional range

                Schizotypal Personality D/o – social/interpersonal deficits due to acute discomfort with close relationships

 

Cluster B:

                Antisocial Personality D/o – disregard for and violation of the rights of others

                Borderline Personality D/o – instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects

                Histrionic Personality D/o – pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention-seeking bx

                Narcissistic Personality D/o – pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy

Cluster C:

                Avoidant Personality D/o – feeling inadequate, hypersensitive to negative evaluation, pattern of social inhibition

                Dependent Personality D/o – need to be taken care of leading to submissive and clinging bx and fear of separation

                Obsessive-Compulsive Personality D/o – orderly, perfectionist, preoccupation with mental and interpersonal control, in an inflexible and closed way

                Personality D/o NOS – might be presence of features for multiple diagnoses but not full for anyone in particular

American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnositc and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Text Revision, 4^th ed. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers.