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Personality Disorder 2
Personality Disorder 2
Personality Disorder
“ A personality disorder is an
enduring pattern of inner
experience and behavior
that deviates markedly from
the expectations of the
individual’s culture, is
pervasive, and inflexible,
has an onset in adolescence
or early adulthood, is stable
over time and leads to
distress or impairment.”
- DSM IV -
Why people develop Personality Disorder?
10 Specific Personality Disorders
1. Paranoid Personality Disorder
2. Schizoid Personality Disorder
3. Schizotypal Personality Disorder
4. Antisocial Personality Disorder
5. Borderline Personality Disorder
6. Histrionic Personality Disorder
7. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
8. Avoidant Personality Disorder
9. Dependent Personality Disorder
10. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
CLUSTER A CLUSTER B
Paranoid Antisocial
Schizoid Borderline
Schizotypal Histrionic
Narcissist
CLUSTER C
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive Compulsive
Cluster A
Cluster A
1. Cluster A includes Paranoid, Schizoid and
Schizotypal Personality Disorders.
2. They have common characteristic of social
withdrawal and awkwardness.
3. They are influenced by distorted thinking and
eccentric behavior.
4. They start at early age with familial association
of psychotic disorders.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Difficulty to trust others,
pervasive suspiciousness that
others will hurt them
Hard to confide to others
Always looking for signs of
betrayal or hostility
Suspecting their partner is being
unfaithful, with no evidence
Read threats and danger – which
others don’t see – into everyday
situations
DSM-IV-TR DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
A. A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that
their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by
early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as
indicated by four (or more) of the following:
Note: If criteria are met prior to onset of Schizophrenia, add “Premorbid.” e.g.,
“Paranoid Personality Disorder (Premorbid).”
Schizoid Personality Disorder
uninterested in forming close
relationships with other people
including your family
feel that relationships interfere
with your freedom and tend to
cause problems
prefer to be alone with your own
thoughts
choose to live your life without
interference from others
get little pleasure from life
have little interest in sex or
intimacy
be emotionally cold towards
others.
DSM-IV-TR DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
Note: If criteria are met prior to the onset of Schizophrenia, add "Premorbid," e.g.,
"Schizotypal Personality Disorder (Premorbid)."
CLUSTER B
CLUSTER B
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ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY
DISORDER
DEFINITION
Genetic factors.
Brain damage or dysfunction.
Histories of parental abandonment or abuse are very
common. Repeated, arbitrary or harsh punishment by
parents is thought to be a factor.
PSYCHODYNAMICS
Chronic course
Some improvements of symptoms may occur as the
patients ages
Multiple somatic complaints and coexistence of
substance abuse and/or major depression is common
Increase morbidity: substance abuse, trauma,
suicide/homicide
PROGNOSIS
Complications
• Death by violence
• Substance abuse
• Suicide
• Physical injury
• Legal and financial difficulties
• Depressive disorders
TREATMENT
Psychotherapy
Group therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy – self-destructive behavior, fear of
intimacy
Pharmacotherapy
B-adrenergics - Agression
Psychostimulants (Ritalin) – ADHD
Antiepileptic : carbamazepin (Tegretol) and valproate (Deoakote) -
impulsive behavior
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Definition:
Literally on the border of neurosis and psychosis.
Chracterized by: extraordinarily unstable mood, affect, behavior,
object relations and self-image.
Suicide attempts and acts of self-mutilation are common.
This individuals are very impulsive, and suffer from identity
problems as well as feelings of emptiness and boredom.
Also known as ambulatory schizophrenia, as-if personality,
pseudoneurotic schizophrenia and psychotic character disorder.
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Splitting
Projective identification
Patients have both intense aggressive needs ad intense
object hunger, often alternating.
The patient has marked fear of abandonment.
Turning against self : self-hate, self loathing – Is
prominent.
Generalized ego dysfunction results in identity
disturbance.
ETIOLOGY
Splitting
Mood swings
Micropsychotic episodes (short-lived psychosis)
Self-destructive
Dependent
Express enormous anger
Chronic feeling of emptiness and boredom
DIAGNOSIS AND DSM-IV
CRITERIA
Variable
Some improvement may occur in later years
Complications
• Self -injury
• Somatoform disorders
• Suicide
• Psychoses
• Substance abuse
• Sexual disorders
TREATMENT
A) Psychotherapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy – control impulses and angry outbursts, reduce
sensitivity towards criticism and rejection
Dialectical behavior therapy – parasuicidal behavior
B) Pharmacotherapy
Antipsychotics – anger, hostility, and brief psychotic episodes
Antidepressant – depressed mood
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) –impulsive behavior
Benzodiazepines (alprazolam or Xanax) – anxiety and depression
Anticonvulsant (carbamazepin or Tegretol) – improve global functioning
Serotonergic agent (fluoxetine or Prozac)
HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY
DISORDER
HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Prevalence is 2% to 3%.
Complications
Somatization disorder
Conversion disorder
Dissociative disorders
Sexual disorders
Mood disorders
Substance abuse
TREATMENT
Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy (individual/group) –
clarification of inner feelings
Pharmacotherapy
Antidepressant – depression and somatic complaints
Antianxiety agents - anxiety
Antipsychotics – derealization and illusions
CLUSTER B
NARCISSISTIC
PERSONALITY DISORDER
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Omnipotence
Grandiosity
Beauty
Talent
EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Prevalence of the disorder is <1% of
the general population
• Strong family history
• Number of cases increasing steadily
CLINICAL FEATURES
Grandiose sense of self-importance (special and
expect special treatment)
Striking sense of entitlement
Frequently ambitious to achieve fame and fortune
Want their own way
Refusal to obey conventional rules (norm) or behavior
Fragile relationships
Cannot show empathy
Handle criticism poorly (enraged or completely
indifferent)
Fragile self-esteem depression
DSM IV TR
2. Pharmacotherapy
1. Lithium (Eskalith) – mood swings
2. Antidepressant (esp SSRI) – depression
and somatic complaints
CLUSTER C
AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER
DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
CLUSTER C
AVOIDANT PERSONALITY
DISORDER
AVOIDANT PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Hypersensitivity to negative
evaluation
(extreme sensitivity to rejection)
Shy (Timid)
“Inferiority complex”
EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Common
• Prevalence of the disorder is 0.05%
to 1% of the general population
• No information on sex ratio or
familial pattern
CLINICAL FEATURES
• Main personality trait is timidity not asocial
• Show great desire for companionship but
need unusually strong guarantees of
uncritical acceptance
• Talking: Express uncertainty, lack of self
confidence, self effacing manner
• Afraid to speak up, afraid to make request
• Misinterpret comments as belittling &
ridiculing
• Often no close friends or confidants
DSM IV TR
2. Pharmacotherapy
•. to manage anxiety and depression
•. Beta-adrenergic antagonists (Atenolol) to manage ANS
hyperactivity
•. Serotonergic agents may help rejection sensitivity
CLUSTER C
DEPENDENT PERSONALITY
DISORDER
DEPENDENT PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Pervasive pattern of
dependent
and submissive behavior
2. Pharmacotherapy
•. Deal with anxiety and depression
•. Imipramine (Tofranil): panic attacks or have high levels of
separation anxiety
•. Benzodiazepines and serotonergic agents
CLUSTER C PERSONALITY
DISORDERS
AVOIDANT DEPENDE
NT
“Hypersensitivity to “Pervasive pattern of
negative evaluation dependent & submissive
(extreme sensitivity to behavior”
rejection)”
OBSESSIVE-
COMPULSIV
E
“Preoccupied with rules,
regulations, orderliness,
neatness, details &
perfectionism”
Obsessive-Compulsive
Personality Disorder
(OCPD)
Cluster C
OBSESSIVE-COMPLUSIVE
PERSONALITY DISORDER
• Pervasive pattern of perfectionism,
inflexibility, and orderliness.
• Very preoccupied with unimportant details,
unable to to complete simple tasks in time.
• Appear stiff, serious, and formal with
constricted affect.
• Often successful professionally but have poor
interpersonal skills.
Epidemiology