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- AETIOLOGY: Genetic - no satisfactory evidence about the genetic contribution to personality disorder.
Body build (Kretschmer)-
Pyknic (stocky and rounded) build - related to cyclothymic...>more
- Affective personality disorder: 3 groups ‑
Depressive personality disorder - always low in spirits;
persistently gloomy view of life; brood about misfortunes;
worry unduly; strong sense of duty; little capacity for
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- Anankastic personality disorder: (obsessional personality disorder) - lack of adaptability to new situations; high moral standards-, humourless approach to life; miserly-, sensitivity to criticism; indecision; emotionally...>more
- Antisocial personality disorder: (sociopathic or asocial personality disorder)- impulsive actions-, lack of guilt; failure to make loving relationships; failure to learn from adverse experiences.
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- Asthenic personality disorder: (passive or dependent personality disorder) - weak-willed; unduly compliant; lack vigour; lack self-reliance; avoid responsibility; little capacity for enjoyment.
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- Avoidance personality disorder: Hypersenitive to rejection; low self-esteem; unwillingness to enter into relationships; desire for acceptance.
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- Borderline personality disorder: Unstable relationships;undue anger variable moods; chronic boredom; doubts about personal identity; intolerance of being left alone; self-injury; impulsive behaviour that is damaging to the person.
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- Differential Diagnosis: Exclude any organic disorders - focal or diffuse organic brain disease, epilepsy, alcohol or drug abuse.
Exclude any functional psychiatric illness - schizophrenia, affective disorders,...>more
- Epidemiology: More commonly diagnosed in:
Age group 18-35 years.
Male sex.
Lower social class.
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- Explosive personality disorder: Instability of mood with outbursts of anger and violence; no other difficulties in relationships (cf. antisocial personality disorder).
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- Histrionic personality disorder: Self-dramatization; a self-importance; preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power and intellectual brilliance; attention demanding but show little warm feeling in return; exploitative...>more
- Paranoid personality disorder: Strong sense of self-importance; suspicious; hypersensitive; cold affect; argumentative and stubborn.
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- Passive-aggressive personality disorder: Passive resistance to demands for adequate performance; stubborn; inefficient.
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- Personality Disorder Management: Physical‑
Short-term-anxiolytic drugs or neuroleptics may be given for short periods times of unusual stress.
Long-term-neuroleptics may be helpful in paranoid and schizotypal...>more
- PROGNOSIS: Personality disorders tend to become rather less disordered as the patient grows older.
Patients with antisocial personality disorders over the age of 45 present fewer problems of aggressive...>more
- Schizoid personality disorder: Introspective; prone to engage in an inner world of fantasy rather than take action; lack of emotional warmth and rapport; self-sufficient and detached; aloof and humourless; incapable of...>more
- Schizotypal personality disorder: Superstitious ideas;an interest in telepathy and clairvoyance; unrealistic (magical) thinking; odd forms of speech.
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