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Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders. Horney’s Neurotic Needs and Personality Disorders. Affection and approval Partner to take over one’s life Restrict one’s life within narrow boundaries Power, control over others, and façade of omnipotence Exploit others and get the better of them.

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Personality Disorders

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  1. Personality Disorders

  2. Horney’s Neurotic Needs and Personality Disorders • Affection and approval • Partner to take over one’s life • Restrict one’s life within narrow boundaries • Power, control over others, and façade of omnipotence • Exploit others and get the better of them • Dependent, Histrionic, Borderline, Narcissistic • Dependent, Borderline • Dependent, Avoidant, Paranoid • Antisocial, Narcissistic, Borderline, Paranoid, Histrionic, Obsessive Compulsive • Antisocial, Narcissistic, Borderli

  3. Horney’s Neurotic Needs and Personality Disorders • Social recognition or prestige • Personal admiration • Personal achievement • Self-sufficiency and independence • Perfection and unassailability • Narcissistic, Histrionic • Narcissistic, Histrionic • Antisocial, Narcissistic • Avoidant, Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal • Narcissistic, Borderline, Avoidant

  4. The Big 5 • There is considerable empirical support for Personality Disorders being understood as maladaptive variants of the Big 5. The first four in particular define the domains of impairment used to diagnose personality and mental disorders. • Extraversion & Agreeableness • Two largest domains account largely for all manner of interpersonal relatedness • Conscientiousness • Concerns control and regulation of behavior • Neuroticism • Primarily important to the fields of clinical psych and psychiatry • Openness • Primarily deals with culture or society’s interest in creativity, intellect, imagination, and conventionality. There are aspects of openness in PDs as well.

  5. Research(Hankin, B.L. &Abela, J.R. (Eds.). (2005) Development of psychopathology: A vulnerability-stress perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications) • Childhood Maltreatment • Specific combinations of • Emotional abuse • Physical abuse • Sexual abuse • Emotional neglect • Physical neglect • Supervision neglect • Maladaptive Parenting • Respond erratically or inappropriately to private emotional experiences • Insensitive to people’s emotional states • Tendency to over or under-react to emotional experiences • Emphasize rigid control over negative emotions • Have tendency to trivialize painful experiences or to attribute such experiences to negative traits

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