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Personality Disorders - Coggle Diagram

- - - - more extreme abuse
      - increased no. of alters
  - - - dissociation of consciousness to escape initial trauma
      - dissociation becoes response mechanism for future stress
      - suggestibility pre-disposes to dissociation
      - primitive response to trauma
    - - symptoms emerge as a product of therapy
      - suggestibility increases susceptibility
      - accounts for clustering of cases and rise in prevalence and severity
- - - - paranoia, mistrust of others, irrational suspicions
      - preoccupied with doubts, reluctance to confide, misinterpets innocent remarks and holds grudges
    - - detachement from interpersonal relationships, emotional coldness, indifference to praise
      - has few friends, chooses solitary activities
      - linked to anhedonia of social activities seen in negative symptoms of SZ
    - - distortions in thinking, feelings and perceptions
      - discomfort in social situation; suspicions and paranoia
      - linked to positive symptoms of SZ
  - - - lack of empathy/remorse, disregard for others
      - failure to conform to norms/laws, impulsivity, deceitfulness
    - - unstable personal relationships, frantic attempts to avoid real/imagined abandonment
      - frquent suicidal, self-harming/mutilating behaviours
      - impulsivity in self-damaging behaviours
    - - excessive need for approval, needs to be centre of attention
      - misinterpret relationships with people being more intimate
    - - inflated self-importance and sense of entitlement
      - fantasises of success, arrogance, envy of others, low in empathy
  - - - social inhibition, avoids/withdraws from social situations
      - low-self worth, fear of rejection, reluctant to engage in new things
    - - persistent psychological dependence on others, lack of confidence in ability to take responsibility, has difficulty doing things alone
      - tends to agree with others, seeks out new relationships
      - some overlap with trait dependency in depression, likely to have high A due to fear of being alone
    - - preoccupation with orderliness, focus on doing things right rather than doing them in the ways of doing the task
      - frequently confused with OCD however OCD is more focussed on compulsive/intrusive thoughts
- - - - anxiety (N1)
      - anger hostility (N2)
      - depression (N3)
      - self-consciousness (N4)
      - impulsiveness (N5)
      - vulnerability (N6)
    - - high anxiety (N1)
      - high self-consciousness (N4)
      - high vulnerability (N6)
      - high altruism (A3)
      - high compliance (A4)
      - high modesty (A5)
    - - high competence (C1)
      - high order (C2)
      - high dutifulness (C3)
      - high achievement striving (C4)
      - high deliberation (C6)
    - - low gregariousness (E2)
      - low assertiveness (E3)
      - high anxiety (N1)
      - high self-consciousness (N4)
      - high vulnerability (N6)
    - - low warmth (E1)
      - low gregariousness (E2)
      - low positive emotionality (E6)
- - - - severity
      - significant impairments in function of self and interpersonal
    - - style
      - one or more pathological personality trait domains or facets measured with maladaptive trait model (krueger et al., 2012)