BH
Personality Disorders
"Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning." - Myers
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder
A. This is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as
indicated by three (or more) of the following:
1.Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts
that are grounds for arrest.
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, uses of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
6. Consistent irritability, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder
A. A persuasive pattern of instability or interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked
impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of
the following:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of
idealization and devaluation.
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self-impulsivity in at least two
areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating).
4. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
5. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g. intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety
usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
6. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
7. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger,
recurrent physical fights)
8. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.