Problems With Personality

Personality Disorders

The Five Factor Model

How do personality disorders affect daily life?

The defining moment...

Cultural Factors

Early Childhood Development

Attachment

Neurobiology and "vulnerability" factors.

3 Main Categories of Personality Disorders

Cluster A

Cluster B

Cluster C

The hybrid dimensional-categorical model

4.4% to 13.4% of individuals within a community have a personality disorder, and with a median of 9.6% across various studies.

Men vs. Women?

Culture and society context?

What about comorbidity?

Similar Mental Disorders

• Depression
• Substance Abuse
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Phobias
• PTSD
• Panic Disorder

Case Study of Anna

Diagnostic criteria within the DSM-5

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging.

5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.

6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.

8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger.

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.

Borderline Personality Disorder