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Personality Disorders (= Class of syndromes defined by the early onset of…
Personality Disorders (= Class of syndromes defined by the early onset of inflexible and maladaptive traits that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts and that are relatively stable over a period of years. , Anti-social personality: a personality disorder in which a person (usually men) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. These destructive behavior surfaces in childhood or adolescence, beginning with excessive lying, fighting, stealing, violence or manipulation. as adults- they usually end up in unemployment/serial killers or become ruthless and powerful/highly successful. - remorselessness, lack of empathy. Pyschopaths/ sociopaths, *Paranoid personality Disorder, Issues in diagnosis and treatment of PDs, Pharmacotherapy, DSM, Ego-dystonic vs. Ego-syntonic (personality disorders), Borderline Personality disorder, Vulnerability: tend to develop other psychiatric disorders e.g. OCD personality may develop MDD. Drug use. There may be blurring between specific psychiatric clinical disorder and personality disorder category e.g. avoidance personality disorder- generalised form of social anxiety, Psychotherapy)