Chapter Sixteen: Personality Disorders

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Personality

A set of uniquely expressed characteristics that influence our behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and interactions

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Personality Disorder

When people display an enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs their sense of self, emotional experiences, goals, capacity for empathy, and/or capacity for intimacy

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Dimensional Approach

Disorders are classified by the severity of personality traits rather than by the presence or absence of specific traits

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Ideas of Reference

Beliefs that unrelated events pertain to them in some important way

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Bodily Illusions

Sensing an external force or presence

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Operant conditioning

Some parents unintentionally teach antisocial behavior by regularly rewarding a childs aggressive behavior

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Mentalization

Peoples capacity to understand their own mental states and those of other people

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

A comprehensive treatment approach, applied particularly in cases of borderline personality disorder and/or suicidal intent; includes both individual therapy sessions and group sessions

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Personality Disorder-Trait Specified (PDTS)

A personality disorder currently undergoing study for possible inclusion in a future revision of DSM-5

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Negative Affectivity

People experience negative emotions frequently and intensely

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Emotional Lability

Unstable emotions

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Preservation

Repetition of certain behaviors despite repeated failures

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Detachment

People tend to withdraw from other people and social interactions

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Restricted Emotional Reactivity

Little reaction to emotionally arousing situations

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Anhedonia

Inability to feel pleasure or take interest in things

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Antagonism

People behave in ways that put them at odds with other people

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Psychoticism

People have unusual and bizarre experiences