Slide Report for Pastoral Psychology

1. PERSONALITY
DISORDER
Bro. Sandrick Lintua,
MA

2. PERSONALITY AS A DISORDER
• Personality is a positive quality
but can also be a disorder and
an object of psychological
treatment.
• Personality is not a thing, though
we tend to view it that way;

3. • Personality disorder happens
when behavioral or emotional
responses attributed to a
generalized predisposition
results to a significant distress to
a person.

4. • Psychologist T. Millon provides a
useful provided a useful
fgramework for understanding
personality disorders (Millon,
1986a; 1986b).

5. CLASSIFICATION OF PERSONALITY
DISORDERS
• The DSM-III (American
Psychiatric Association, 1987)
describes eleven official
personality disorders in three
broad groups: 1) anxious or
fearful, 2) odd or eccentric, and

6. Emotional
Dramatic
Odd
Excentric
Anxious
Fearful
Avoidant
DSM-IIIR:
1) anxious or fearful,
2) odd or eccentric, and
3) dramatic emotional or
erratic.

7. ANXIOUS OR FEARFUL DISORDERS
1. AVOIDANT PERSONALITY
2. DEPENDENT PERSONALITY
3. OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
4. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY
DISORDER

8. AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER
• WORRY EXCESSIVELY ABOUT SOCIAL EVALUATION
• HIGHLY AVOIDANT OF MOST INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS
• ARE INTERPERSONALLY ANXIOUS AND FEARFUL OF
REJECTION

9. DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER
• SEES OTHERS AS THE SOURCE OF GRATIFICATION
• TENDENCY TO BE CLINGY AND SUBMISSIVE IN
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
• UNREASONABLE FEAR OF ABANDONMENT

10. OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
• THE FIRST TWO CONDITIONS MAY CO-EXIST IN THE
SAME PERSON.
• EXCESSIVE AND RIGID FIXATION ON DOING THINGS THE
RIGHT WAY
• TEND TO BE HIGHLY PERFECTIONISTIC, ORDERLY, AND
EMOTIONALLY SHALLOW

11. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
• NEGATIVE ATTITUDES WITH PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO THE
DEMANDS

12. ODD OR ECCENTRIC DISORDERS
• PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
• SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
• SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

13. PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
• PERVASIVE AND UNJUSTIFIED MISTRUST AND SUSPICION
• ITS MAJOR DEFENSE IS PROJECTION
• EXPECTANT THAT OTHERS WOULD THREATEN OR
DEMEAN THEM

14. SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
• PERVASIVE PATTERN OF DETACHMENT FROM SOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS
• VERY LIMITED RANGE OF EMOTIONS IN INTERPERSONAL
SITUATIONS

15. SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
• BEHAVIOR AND DRESS IS ODD AND UNUSUAL
• MOST ARE SOCIALLY ISOLATED AND MAY BE HIGHLY
SUSPICIOUS OF OTHERS
• MAGICAL THINKING, IDEAS OF REFERENCE, AND
ILLUSIONS ARE COMMON

16. DRAMATIC, EMOTIONAL OR ERRATIC
DISORDERS
• HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
• NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
• BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
• ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

17. HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
• PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR THAT ARE OVERLY DRAMATIC,
SENSATIONAL, AND SEXUALLY PROVOCATIVE
• OFTEN IMPULSIVE AND NEED TO BE THE CENTER OF
ATTENTION
• THINKING AND EMOTIONS ARE PERCEIVED AS SHALLOW

18. NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
• EXAGGERATED AND UNREASONABLE SENSE OF SELF-
IMPORTANCE
• PREOCCUPATION WITH RECEIVING ATTENTION
• HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO CRITICISM
• TEND TO BE ENVIOUS AND ARROGANT

19. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
• PATTERNS OF UNSTABLE MOODS AND RELATIONSHIPS
• IMPULSIVITY, FEAR OF ABANDONMENT, COUPLED WITH A
VERY POOR SELF-IMAGE
• SELF-MUTILATION AND SUICIDAL GESTURES ARE
COMMON

20. ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
• ALSO KNOWN AS PSYCHOPATHY
• FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH SOCIAL NORMS AND
VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS
• IRRESPONSIBLE, IMPULSIVE, AND DECEITFUL
• LACK A CONSCIENCE, EMPATHY, AND REMORSE

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