Exam 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders

To receive a diagnosis of "antisocial personality disorder," a person must be at least ______ years of age.

Kohut believed that ______ lay beneath the inflated veneers of narcissistic personalities.

Should the DSM include a diagnostic category for anger disorder? Why or why not? Include Jerry Deffenbacher's position in your argument.

The phrase "a place for everything, and everything in its place" best characterizes people with ______ personality disorder.

Researchers believe that ______ personality disorder often emerges within a strongly moralistic and rigid family environment, which does not permit even minor deviations from Expected roles or behaviors.

Akhtar theorizes that although people with schizoid personality disorder are aloof and show little appetite for sex, they may be attracted to ______.

Typically, people with IED attempt to justify their behavior, but they also feel genuine remorse or regret because of the harm their behavior causes.

Adam suffers from antisocial personality disorder. If social-learning theorists are correct, his problem arises from _______ when he was a child.

Reginald suffers from borderline personality disorder. His therapist tells him that his problem stems from a failure of separation-individuation while he was growing up. His therapist's Conceptualization of the problem is most like that of ______.

Which of the following statements is true?

People with borderline personalities shift back and forth between viewing people as all good or all bad, rather than as partly good and partly bad.

Which of the following is true of people suffering from dependent personality disorder?

The concept of separation-individuation was developed by ______.

The personality disorder that has been most extensively studied by scholars and researchers is ______ personality disorder.

Explain the problem of confusing diagnostic labels with explanation. How might this blurring fall into the trap of circular reasoning?

Brain imaging links borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality to dysfunctions in the __________.

People who are so terrified of criticism or rejection that they are generally unwilling to enter relationships are suffering from ______ personality disorder.