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Clinical Types Of Personality. MLPS-201 Prof. Dr. Ramez N. Bedwani. Outcome:. Different personality types and their presentations. Clinical Personality .
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Clinical Types Of Personality • MLPS-201 • Prof. Dr. Ramez N. Bedwani
Outcome: • Different personality types and their presentations
Clinical Personality Personality denotes characteristic ways of thinking, feeling behaving & reacting to the environment, when this psychological signature strikes a useful balance between consistency & adaptive flexibility, we speak of personality traits. A personality disorder is said to exist when a person chronically uses certain mechanisms of coping in an inappropriate & maladaptive fashion. Criteria for diagnosis: - Long history - Recurrent maladaptive behavior - Minimal anxiety to the person himself - Major problems with others
1- Paranoid personality Suspicious & hypersensitive to perceived sights & injuries, they believe that someone might harm them. 2- Schizoid personality These persons live lonely (tendency to isolation) who seem to have little need for others. Sensitive and avoiding close relationships 3- Schizo affective personality Ideas of references, social isolation and paranoid ideation mixed with mood changes 4- Histrionic personality Superficial relationships, there is an exaggerated expression of emotions. Dependant, dramatizing and attention seeking. Emotional immaturity, sexualization of non sexual objects. Selfishness.
5- Antisocial personality Antisocial behavior, does not learn from experience or punishment. Failure to accept social standards, and the law. 6- Compulsive or obsessive personality Persons are preoccupied with rules, details and inflexible perfectionism 7- Cyclothymiacs or affective personality Mood swings, fluctuating between elation and sadness 8- inadequate personality The person fails in emotional; social and occupational adjustment. 9- Narcissistic personality Grandiosity, Exhibitionism, preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty and intelligence. -Treatment Psychotherapy & antidepressants & sedation may be used
Quiz Among clinical types of personality • Paranoid • Cyclothymiacs • powerful