The document summarizes personality disorders as defined in the DSM-IV. It describes the three clusters of personality disorders (odd/eccentric, dramatic/emotional/erratic, and anxious/fearful), lists the seven main types of disorders, and discusses how personality disorders relate to the five factor model of personality traits. It also notes some problems with the DSM-IV classification system and provides some Harry Potter examples of characters that could represent different personality disorders.

1. Disorders
Megan Harrington

2. DSM-IV Personality
Disorders
•How we classify/categorize disorders
•Defined as problems in pervasive
patterns of thinking and behaving
•Impairments in either self functioning
(identity, self direction) or
interpersonal functioning (empathy,
intimacy)

3. Cluster A - Odd/
Eccentric
• Paranoid - paranoia, pervasive, long-
standing suspiciousness/mistrust of others
• Schizoid - lack of interest in social
relationships, emotional coldness, apathy
• Schizotypal - anxiety in social setting, odd
behavior/thinking, unconventional beliefs

4. Cluster B - Dramatic/
Emotional/Erratic
• Antisocial - pervasive pattern of disregard for or
violation of the rights of others
• Borderline - unusual degree of instability in
variability and depth of moods, chaotic
• Histrionic - excessive emotionality and attention-
seeking, excessive/inappropriate need for approval
• Narcissistic - excessively preoccupied with
personal adequacy, power, prestige, and vanity

5. Cluster C - Anxious/
Fearful
• Avoidant - pervasive pattern of social inhibition,
feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative
evaluation, and avoidance of social interactions
• Dependent - pervasive pattern of dependence on
others to meet emotional needs, inadequate, helpless
• Obsessive/Compulsive - pervasive pattern of
preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and
mental and interpersonal control at the expense of
flexibility, openness, and efficiency

6. Seven Types of
Disorders:
1. Antisocial/Psychopathic - grandiosity
and a pervasive pattern of taking
advantage of other people
2. Avoidant - Inhibited from forming and
maintaing relationships out of fears of
humiliation and rejection

7. Seven Types of
Disorders:
3. Borderline - intense emotionality,
impulsivity, internal feelings of
emptiness and rejection
4. Narcissistic - impairments in self and
interpersonal functioning, problems
with exaggerated personality and
identity, and failures in empathy and
intimacy

8. Seven Types of
Disorders:
5. Obsessive Compulsive - hyper focused on
details and are excessively stubborn, rigid,
and moralistic
6. Schizotypal - characterized by odd thinking
and appearances or confused states
7. Personality disorder trait specified (catch all
for everything else)

9. DSM-IV Disorders and
Big Five Traits
•grounded in personality science
•treats personality disorders as
extremes (high/low) of the traditional
personality trait dimensions

10. (Continued)
•O - openness
•C - conscientiousness
•E - extraversion
•A - agreeableness
•N - neuroticism/emotional stability

11. (Continued)
• O - psychoticism
• C - compulsivity (high C), disinhibition (low C)
• E - detachment (low E)
• A - antagonism (low A)
• N - negative affectivity (high N)

12. Problems with the
DSM-IV
• poorly defined - based on theoretical views
without much research
• individual symptoms vague
• hard to operationalize in a real world setting
- new DSM-V dimensions classification
should solve this
• inadequate relationship/connection to
modern personality theory

13. In Harry Potter
•http://lesterleung.wordpress.com/
2008/05/20/ddx-harry-potter/
•Cluster A:
1. Paranoid - Cornelius Fudge
2. Schizoid - Severus Snape
3. Schizotypal - Sybill Trelawney

14. (Continued)
•Cluster B:
1. Antisocial - Voldemort
2. Borderline - Moaning Myrtle
3. Histrionic - Bellatrix Lestrange
4. Narcissistic - Gilderoy Lockhart

15. (Continued)
•Cluster C:
1. Avoidant - Rubeus Hagrid
2. Obsessive Compulsive - Dolores
Umbridge
3. Dependent - Peter Pettigrew

16. (Continued)
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_vHF0Wyz_Js
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=rwzNpFWiOTg
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6GPS8Xe8wIU