2. Lecturer Psychiatry- Mansoura Faculty of medicineBy
D. Ibtihal M.A. Ibrahim
Lecturer Psychiatry- Mansoura Faculty of medicine

3. Definition
The word "personality" originates from the Latin persona, which means mask.
It is the characteristically recurring pattern of the individual’s behavior, including both his subjective experience and his outward manifest activities.

4. Characteristics of personality
Unique and specific.
Dynamic and moving force
Combination of inner and outer qualities

5. Personality structure

6. Psychoanalytic approach
Topographic model of personality

7. Psychoanalytic Portrait of human nature:
Human behavior is determined by forces beyond our control
unconscious status of our motivations and thus he deprived us from rationality.
sexual and aggressive nature of those motivations
human nature is basically evil.
Psychoanalytic Portrait of human nature:
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8. Jung personality structure

9. Behaviorist view of Personality
Skinner He claimed that our behavior is initiated, maintained & changed by environmental factors. Our complex human behavior are shaped through successive reinforcement. Personality is simply a collection of operant behaviors
Banadura
Learning can occur by observation and modeling i.e. we observe other people behavior and model our behavior on it

10. Behaviorist Portrait of human nature
Behaviorist approach to personality is determinism
People are not inherently good or evil but are readily modified by events and situations in their enviroment
The human personality is highly modifiable
We are shaped primarily by forces beyond our control.
Behaviorist Portrait of human nature
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11. Humanistic Portrait of human nature
individual has an innate tendency to move towards growth, maturity and positive change
basic force motivating the human organism is the actualizing tendency
people are responsible for their lives and actions and have the freedom and will to change their attitudes and behavior.
people are essentially good. Personality is learned through obstacles we face and overcome.
Humanistic Portrait of human nature
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12. Personality Assessment
Classic method.
Interview method
Gathering all available information from infancy, childhood, adolescence to maturity.
Case study method
In psychoanalysis to reveal deeper parts of personality.
Free association and dream interpretation
Rating scales
Questionnaire
Projective techniques
Objective methods

13. Definition of personality disorder (DSM-IV-TR):
behavior is ego-syntonic
Enduring subjective experiences and behavior
deviate from cultural standards
onset in adolescence or early adulthood.
stable through time
rigidly pervasive
lead to unhappiness and impairment.
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14. Classification of Personality Disorders:
ICD 10
No clusters.
Paranoid.
Schizoid.
Dissocial.
Emotionally unstable
Impulsive.
Borderline.
Histerionic.
Anxious ( avoidant).
Dependent.
Anankastic (obsessive compulsive).
DSM IV
Personality disorders are grouped into 3 clusters.
Cluster A:
Schizotypal.
Cluster B:
Antisocial.
Narcissistic.
Cluster C:
Avoidant.
Dependent
Obsessive Compulsive.
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