Personality Disorder

The general criteria for personality disorder specify that an individual’s

personality pattern must deviate significantly from the expectations of his/her culture as shown in the styles of thinking about oneself, others or events; emotional experience and expression; interpersonal

functioning and or impulse control.

Definition:• A personality disorder is an enduring

pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is relatively stable over time and particular personality features must be evident by early adulthood.

Personality disorder clusters

Cluster AOdd-Eccentric

Personality Disorder

Cluster BDramatic-Emotional Personality Disorders

Cluster CAnxious-Fearful

Personality Disorder

-symptoms similar to those with schizophrenia, including inappropriate or flat affect, odd thoughts and speech patterns paranoia however maintain grasp on reality

-manipulative, volatile and

uncaring social relationships;

prone to impulsive, violent

behaviors that show little regard

for their own safety or needs of

others.

- Extremely concerned

about being criticized or

abandoned by others and thus

have dysfunctional

relationships with others.

Label Key Features:

Paranoid Personality Disorder

A pattern if distrust and suspiciousness such that others’

motives are interpreted as malevolent.

Schizoid Personality Disorder

A patter of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range

of emotional expression.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

A pattern of acute discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or

perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder• A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal

deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships as well as by cognitive of perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood.

Symptoms include:o Restricted range of emotiono Uncomfortable interpersonal interactionso Odd and eccentric behavioro ParanoiaPrevalence rate 3.9% of general populationMore diagnosed in males than in females

Cluster B : Dramatic-Emotional Personality Disorders

1. Antisocial personality disorder2. Borderline personality disorder3. Histrionic personality disorder

4. Narcissistic personality disorder

Label Key Features Similar Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder

A pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others; criminal, impulsive, deceitful or callous behavior; lack of remorse

Conduct disorder (evidenced by age 15)

Borderline personality disorder

A pattern of instability in self-image; mood and interpersonal relationships and marked impulsivity; transient dissociative states; highly reactive to real or imagined abandonment

Mood disorder

Borderline PD• A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal

relationships, self-image and affect and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood.

Symptoms include:• Out-of-control emotions• Unstable interpersonal relationships• Concerns about abandonment• Self-damaging behavior• Impulsivity• Frequently accompanied by depression, anxiety or anger-Prevalence rate is 5.9% of general population-More commonly diagnosed in females than males

Label Features Similar Disorder

Histrionic personality disorder

A pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking; dramatic

Somatoform disorders, mood disoder

Narcissistic personality disorder

A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy, entitled, arrogant and exploitive attitudes and behavior.

Manic symptoms

Cluster C: Anxious-Fearful Personality Disorder

1. Avoidant personality disorder2. Dependent personality disorder3. Obsessive-compulsive

personality disorder