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 personalitySuspicious & hypersensitive to perceived sights & injuries, they believe that someone might harm them.

2- Schizoid personalityThese persons live lonely (tendency to isolation) who seem to have little need for others. Sensitive and avoiding close relationships

3- Schizo affective personalityIdeas of references, social isolation and paranoid ideation mixed with mood changes

4- Histrionic personalitySuperficial relationships, there is an exaggerated expression of emotions. Dependant, dramatizing and attention seeking. Emotional immaturity, sexualization of non sexual objects. Selfishness.

5- Antisocial personalityAntisocial behavior, does not learn from experience or punishment. Failure to accept social standards, and the law.

6- Compulsive or obsessive personalityPersons are preoccupied with rules, details and inflexible perfectionism

7- Cyclothymiacs or affective personalityMood swings, fluctuating between elation and sadness

8- inadequate personalityThe person fails in emotional; social and occupational adjustment.

9- Narcissistic personalityGrandiosity, Exhibitionism, preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty and intelligence.

-Treatment Psychotherapy & antidepressants & sedation may be used

QUIZ

Among clinical types of personality1. Paranoid2. Cyclothymiacs3. powerful

ASSIGNMENT

Autistic disorder مرعي علي احمد بسيوني وفاءعلي محمد العزيز عبد محمد وليد

فرحاتمحمود محمد حسين محمود يمنىابراهيم محمد زكريا محمد كاريمان

Hypnosis and stress جيد فرج عصام كيرلساحمد حسان صالح محمد

الجود آبو العال عبد عاطف محمدسالم ابراهيم محمد نبيل محمد

الكريم عبد رائد مختارPersonality Types الشافي عبد محمد حمدي امحمد

العظيم عبد فاروق سامح حمدشوربجي مروان ايمان

حسين محمود الدين بهاء خالدعلي حسين علي عصام محمد