1. Bell Work
What is personality?
How can personalities be abnormal?

2. Personality Disorders

3. Personality Disorders
Characterized by inflexible/enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.

4. Paranoid Personality Disorder
Characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives.
Paranoid Personality Disorder

5. Diagnosis Suspects that others are exploiting them
Preoccupied about the loyalty of friends
Reluctant to confide in others
Finds hidden threats in benign comments
Consistently bears grudges
Perceives attacks that are not apparent to others
Recurrent suspicions
Not attributed to other psych. disorders

6. Antisocial Personality Disorder
Characterized by a lack of conscience
Antisocial Personality Disorder

7. Diagnosis Occuring since age 15
Failure to conform to nomrs, repeatedly violating them
Deceitfullness
Impulsivity
Irritability/agressiveness
Consitent irreponsibilty
Lack of remose
Evidence of symptoms of disorder before age 15

8. Behaviors Often skip school Multiple traffic tickets Lie frequently
No empathy for others
Kill animals
Serial killers?

9. Borderline Personality Disorder
Characterized by mood instability and poor self-image
Borderline Personality Disorder

10. Diagnosis Avoid abandonment Pattern of unstable relationships
Unstable self-image
Dangerous impulsivity
Suicidal thoughts
Affective instability in mood
Chronic feelings of emptiness
Inappropriate anger
Paranoia

11. Histrionic Personality Disorder
Constant attention seekers
Histrionic Personality Disorder

12. Diagnosis Discomfort when not center of attention
Inappropriate sexual behavior
Rapidly shifting/shallow expressions of emotion
Uses physical appearance to draw attention
Excessively impressionistic speech w/ little detail
Self-dramatization
Suggestible
Considers relations more intimate than they are

13. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Characterized by self-centeredness
Narcissistic Personality Disorder

14. DIAGNOSIS Inflated sense of importance
Preoccupied with unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or love
Believes they’re “special”
Requires excessive admiration
Sense of entitlement
Interpersonally exploitative
Lacks empathy
Envious of others
Arrogant behaviors/attitudes

15. Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Discomfort w/ relationships, eccentric behavior
Schizotypal Personality Disorder

16. Diagnosis Odd beliefs that influence thinking that influence behavior
Unusual perceptual experiences
Odd thinking/speech
Paranoid/suspicious
Eccentric behaviors
Lack close friends
Excessive social anxiety

17. Characterized by avoidance of close relationships
Schizoid P.D.

18. Diagnosis Avoids close relationships Chooses solitary activities
Little interest in sexual experiences
Takes pleasure in few activities
Lacks close friends
Appears indifferent to criticism/praise
Emotional coldness or detachment

19. Wrap Up
How are personality disorders different than the other types of disorders?