Cluster A,B,C personality types

What personality disorders are characterised into cluster A?

"odd or eccentric"

- paranoid

- schizoid

- schizoptypal

What personality disorders are characterised into cluster B?

Dramatic, emotional, or erratic

- Antisocial

- Borderline (emotionally unstable)

- Histrionic

- Narcissistic

What personality disorders are characterised into cluster C?

"Anxious and fearful"

- Obsessive

- compulsive

- Avoidant

- Dependent

What is the paranoid personality type?

- Hypersensitive and unforgiving attitude when insulted

- Tendency to question the loyalty of friends

- Reluctance to confide in others

- preoccupation with conspirational beliefs and hidden meaning

- Unwarranted tendency to perceive attacks on their character

What is the schizoid personality type?

[presents with the negative symptoms of schizophrenia]

- Indifference to praise and criticism

- Preference for doing activities alone

- Lack on interest in sexual interactions

- Lack of desire for companionship

- Emotional coldness

- Few interests

- Few friends other than family

What is the schizotypal personality type?

- Ideas of reference (differ from delusions in that some insight is retained)

- Odd beliefs and magical thinking

- Unusual perceptual disturbances

- Paranoid ideation and suspiciousness

- Odd, eccentric behaviour

- Lack of close friends other than family members

- Inappropriate effect

- Odd speech without being incoherent

What is the antisocial personality type?

- Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest

- More common in men

- Deception, as indicated by repeatedly lying,or conning others for personal profit or pleasure

- Impulsiveness or failure to plan ahead

- repeated physical fights/assault due to irritibility and aggressiveness

- Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others

- Consistent irresponsibility (e.g repeated failure to sustain consistent work behaviour or honour financial obligations)

- Lack of remorse

What is the narcassistic personality type?

- Grandiose sense of self importance

- Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, or beauty

- Sense of entitlement

- Taking advantage of others to achieve own needs

- Lack of empathy

- Excessive need for admiration

- Chronic envy

- Arrogant and haughty attitude

What is obsessive-compulsive personality type? (aka as anakastic)

- Is occupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or agenda to the point that the key part of the activity is gone

- Demonstrates perfectionism that hampers with completing tasks

- Is extremely dedicated to work and efficiency to the elimination of spare time activities

- Is meticulous, scrupulous, and rigid about etiquettes of morality, ethics, or values

- Is not capable of disposing worn out or insignificant things even when they have no sentimental meaning

- Is unwilling to pass on tasks or work with others except if they surrender to exactly their way of doing things

- Takes on a stingy spending style towards self and others; and shows stiffness and stubbornness

- Treated first line with dialectical behavioural therapy.

What is the avoidant personality type?

- Avoidance of occupational activities which involve significant interpersonal contact due to fears of criticism, or rejection.

- Unwillingness to be involved unless certain of being liked

- Preoccupied with ideas that they are being criticised or rejected in social situations

- Restraint in intimate relationships due to the fear of being ridiculed

- Reluctance to take personal risks due to fears of embarrassment

- Views self as inept and inferior to others

- Social isolation accompanied by a craving for social contact

What is dependent personality type?

- Difficulty making everyday decisions without excessive reassurance from others

- Need for others to assume responsibility for major areas of their life

- Difficulty in expressing disagreement with others due to fears of losing support

- Lack of initiative

- Unrealistic fears of being left to care for themselves

- Urgent search for another relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends

- Extensive efforts to obtain support from others

- Unrealistic feelings that they cannot care for themselves

What age do you need to obtain a diganosis of a personality disorder?

18 years old

The only exception is borderline personality disorder which may be diagnosed before then provided there is sufficient evidence that the patient has fully undergone the process of puberty

What is the histrionic personality type?

- Inappropriate sexual seductiveness

- Need to be the centre of attention

- Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions

- Suggestibility

- Physical appearance used for attention seeking purposes

- Impressionistic speech lacking detail

- Self dramatization

- Relationships considered to be more intimate than they are