Personality Disorders

Anti-Social Personality

Their brain operates at a lower level

No Regard for other people

Feel no remorse for their actions

Cause is unknown

Treatment generally does not work since they do not feel they have a problem

Ironically they often grow out of the behavior

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Suspicion pervasive of every thought Inflexible Self-centered Seek evidence of their beliefs Self-fulfilling prophecy Do not take responsibility for their actions Abuse as infants may be cause Raised in a household that blames others Treatment generally does not work

Schizoid Personality

Cut themselves off from people

Work in occupations where they don’t have to deal with people.

Engage in elaborate fantasies with imaginary friends.

They will engage in solitary activities

Rarely seek out treatment

Avoidant Personality Dis.

Wants friends but cannot form relationships

Low self-esteem

Fearful of rejection, easily hurt, easily humiliated

Some treatment works.

Narcistic Personality

Preoccupation with your self without reason

Delusions of Grandeur

Shallow person, emotionally immature

Insensitive to the needs of others

Expect special treatment from others…..

Cannot sustain relationships

Overly involved parent….usually mother

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Want the spotlight…. Drama king…queen

More often in women then men

Sexually seductive…tease…..

Self-indulgent and manipulative

Behaviors feel this a learned set of behaviors

Freudians feel this a product of a fixation

Passive-Aggressive

Manipulates people by “non-doing” behavior

Hostile but afraid of confrontation

These people get what they want expressing their dissatisfaction in a passive

The have a dissconnect between their behavior and events

Compulsive Personality

Not the same thing as OCD

Nit picky, detailed,

The process of organization keeps them from making a decisions or doing work….

Cannot relax and enjoy people, so they organize things…