Feelings?
This disorder features a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, deceitfulness, impulsivity, and irritability, and a lack of remorse.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Individuals with this disorder display a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self image, and affect, along with marked impulsivity, chronic feelings of emptiness, and frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandoment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Marked by excessive emotionality and attention seeking behavior, individuals with this disorder are uncomfortable when not the center of attention and may use physical appearance or dramatic impressionistic speech to draw others in.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy, often with a sense of entitlement and exploitation of others.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Cluster B personality disorders are collectively described by this phrase in the DSM-5 distinguishing them from Cluster A (odd/eccentric) and Cluster C (anxious/fearful) disorders.
What is "dramatic, emotional, and erratic"
Unlike oppositional defiant disorder, this diagnosis in adolescents requires behaviors that violate the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms, such as physical cruelty, theft, or forced sexual activity.
What is conduct disorder?
This therapy is the most evidence-based treatment for Borderline PD.
What is Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Persistent discomfort when the individual is not in this role; often leading to dramatic or inappropriate behavior to regain it.
This core feature of NPD describes an inflated sense of one's own importance and talents, often without commensurate achievements.
What is grandiosity?
Being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
What is lack of remorse?
Among clinical settings, this type of facility has the highest prevalence of Antisocial Personality Disorder; exceeding 70% in some samples.
What are prisons, forensic settings, or substance abuse clinics?
This eating disorder is significantly associated with borderline personality disorder.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Highly susceptible to the influence of others or circumstances, personality trait.
What is suggestibility?
A patient tells their therapist, "I shouldn't have to wait in line like everyone else. Don't they know who I am?" This best illustrates this DSM-5 criterion.
What is sense of entitlement?
HPD shares features of attention-seeking and emotional lability with Borderline Personality Disorder, but is distinguished by the absence of these two key Borderline features.
What are self-destructiveness (self-harm/ suicidality) and chronic feelings of emptiness?
This comorbidity is present in up to 90% of individuals with Antisocial PD.
What is Substance Use Disorder?
Self mutilating behaviors such as cutting or burning in borderline personality disorder often occur during these types of episodes, and may bring relief by reaffirming the ability to feel.
What are dissociative episodes/symptoms?
The core defense mechanism most classically associated with Histrionic PD involves converting emotional distress into dramatic physical or emotional displays to maintain attachment.
What is conversion (or somatization)? Other cited defenses include repression, regression, and dissociation?
A hallmark feature of NPD, this term describes a deficit in the ability to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
What is lack of empathy?
This neurodevelopmental disorder has a reported comorbidity rate of approximately 1/3rd among patients with Borderline PD.
What is ADHD?
This attachment theory based psychotherapy, which targets the ability to understand one's own and others' mental states, significantly reduced aggressin in males with ASPD on community probation over 12 months.
What is Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)?
In acute crisis (suicidal behavior, extreme anxiety, psychotic episodes), these drug classes are preferred over benzodiazepines for short-term management.
What are low potency antipsychotics (e.g. quetiapine) or sedative antihistamines (e.g. promethazine)?
Among all personality disorders, HPD has the strongest association with this somatoform condition, characterized by multiple unexplained physical complaints across several organ systems.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder (formerly somatization disorder/ Briquet's syndrome)?
When a therapist reacts negatively to their own uncomfortable feelings towards a client. This can manifest as being overly critical, punishing, or rejecting the client.
What is negative countertransference?
This psychological defense mechanism, in whcih a person with NPD oscillates between viewing others as entirely perfecto or entirely worthless, is also commonly seen in Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is splitting (or idealization and devaluation)?