Chapter 8- Psychological Disorders Neurosis: term used to describe disorders causing personal distress and impairment in functioning‚ but did not cause a person to lose contact with reality Psychosis: a serious disturbance that can cause people to lose touch with reality and to suffer from delusions and hallucinations 5 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders 1. Biological Causes: a PD is a symptom of an underlying physical disorder cause by abnormalities in the brain by genetics‚ heredity
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Running head: Eating‚ Substance Abuse‚ Sex/Gender/Sexual‚ Impulse Control‚ and Personality Disorders Paper and Matrix Eating‚ Substance Abuse‚ Sex/Gender/Sexual‚ Impulse Control‚ and Personality Disorders PSY 410 October 1‚ 2012 Kristi Lane‚ PhD Disorders come in many forms and can affect those who are afflicted with them in more ways than imagined. They affect us in the biological‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral aspects of our lives and can
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Is Personality Science? Is Personality Science? The science of personality focuses on the field of personality psychology‚ also known as personology. It is the study of the person‚ that is‚ the whole human individual. The main part of personality psychology addresses the broader issue of “what is it to be a person”. There are two classes of research
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1114. Mr. Bumble reports having three prior hospitalizations to stabilize his mental status‚ in addition to diagnosis of Brief Reactive Psychosis‚ Antisocial Personality Traits‚ Borderline Personality Disorder‚ and Chronic Undifferentiated Schizophrenia. His current diagnosis is Schizophrenia‚ Paranoid Type‚ Chronic; personality disorders have been deferred‚
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Paranoid Personality Disorder Paranoid Personality disorder (PPD) can be defined as possessing an inherent trait of high suspiciousness‚ and a disposition to mistrust people‚ or perceiving them as purposely malicious with ill intent. There are many instances where individuals sometimes out of instinct may not trust another individual or even become suspicious of a person. It may even often appear that people are a little apprehensive or just simply being cautious before they are receptive and
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Borderline Personality People with borderline personality disorder have been the inspiration for fictional characters in movies such as Fatal Attraction‚ Misery‚ Looking for Mr. Goodbar‚ and Single White Female (Sansone & Levitt‚ 2005). There is an interesting combination of characteristics‚ such as mood instability‚ intense fear of abandonment‚ self-damaging impulsivity‚ and intense unstable relationships that make for interesting dramatic characters. People suffering with this illness in real
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loner and like to be isolated at all times? If the answer is yes you could have a personality disorder called schizoid. Schizoid personality disorder is a condition in which people that are affected avoid social activities and continuously stay away from others. In this paper I will tell you the symptoms and treatments for this disorder. People with schizoid personality disorder are loners. Symptoms of this disorder include being solitary‚ unsure how to respond to normal social functions. You have
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The tyranny of toxic managers: Applying emotional intelligence to deal with difficult personalities Toxic managers are a fact of life. Some managers are toxic most of the time; most managers are toxic some of the time. Knowing how to deal with people who are rigid‚ aggressive‚ selfcentered or exhibit other types of dysfunctional behaviour can improve your own health and that of others in the workplace. This author describes the mechanisms for coping. By Roy Lubit Roy Lubit is a member of the Center
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their apartment. Penny is a waitress‚ with dreams of becoming an actress. Sheldon is always saying what an awful actress Penny is and critiquing her waitressing skills‚ as the group would dine where she worked. One disorder I would diagnose Sheldon with is Narcissistic Personality Disorder. NPD comes across in people as a sense of superiority. People with NPD think that they deserve special treatment or that others owe them something. People with NPD also walk around with a lot of arrogance. Sheldon
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Notes on Eating Disorders. DSM-IV-TR recognizes three different forms of eating disorder: anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa‚ and eating disorder NOS. A fourth type of eating disorder‚ binge-eating disorder‚ is listed in the Appendix and is not yet part of the formal DSM. Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are characterized by an intense fear of becoming fat and a drive for thinness. Patients with anorexia nervosa are seriously underweight. This is not true of patients with bulimia nervosa
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