Module 45: Personality Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders

Personality Disorders

Group of disorders characterized by enduring inner experience or behaving patterns that differ from person’s cultural norms/expectations, are pervasive/inflexible, begin in adolescence/early adulthood, and cause significant distress or impairment

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Personality disorder where person exhibits lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive/ruthless or a clever con artist

Dissociative Disorders

Characterized by a disruption of or incoherence in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior that causes impairment

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating identities

Sociopath

Can still feel a bit of emotion (narcissistic)

Psychopath

No emotions