General personality Disorder

GENERAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

A. An enduring pattern of inner experience and  behavior that deviates markedly from the    expectations of the individual's culture.

    

    1. Cognition(i.e., ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and events).

 

   2. Affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional response).

     

  3. Interpersonal functioning.

  4. Impulse control. 

Diagnostic Features 

 

personality traits are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts. only when personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute personality disorders. 

Development and Course

The features of a personality disorder usually become recognizable during adolescence or early adult life. By definition, a personality disorder is an enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is relatively stable over time. 

Culture-Related Diagnostic Issues

Judgments about personality functioning must take into account the individual,s ethnic, cultural, and social background.

Gender-Related Diagnostic Issues 

Certain personality disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder) are diagnosed more frequently in males. others (e.g., borderline, histrionic, and dependent personality disorders are diagnosed more frequently in females.

Differential Diagnosis

Other mental disorders and personality traits. Many of the specific criteria for the personality disorders describe features (e.g., suspiciousness, dependency, insensitivity ) that are also characteristic of episodes of other mental disorders.

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