Paper 4.3 (A): Personality Disorders
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| Introduction
Nature of personality disorders:Criteria for diagnosis of a Personality disorder; Classification, Comorbid conditions Assessing the Dimensions of Personality disorders: Millon’s evolutionary model, big five model and the five factors model, Cloninger’s seven factor model, Rorschach descriptive model Etiology: genetic predisposition, attachment experience, traumatic events, socio-cultural and political forces, development and course of personality disorders Culture and Gender related issues in diagnosis of Personality Disorders, Current debates in Personality disorders MCMI, RIBT Evidence for diagnostic validity of personality disorders |
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| Personality disorders
Paranoid Personality disorder: Clinical description, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality disorders: Clinical description, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Anti-social Personality Disorder: Clinical description, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Narcissistic Personality: Clinical description, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Historical figures with personality disorders Importance of therapeutic alliance in treatment of personality disorders |
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| Others Personality Disorders
Histrionic Personality Disorder: Clinical description, Borderline Personality organization, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Borderline Personality: Clinical description, Borderline Personality organization, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder :Clinical description, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Dependent Personality Disorder and Avoidant Personality Disorder: Clinical description, Prevalence, Etiology, Treatment, Course and Prognosis Personality disorders and creativity Gender and personality disorders: role of cultural and political factors |
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Syllabus Books:
- American Psychiatric Association. (2013).Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5 TM). American Psychiatric Pub.
- Magnavita, J. J. (Ed.). (2004).Handbook of personality disorders: Theory and practice. John Wiley & Sons.
- Sadock, B.J. &Sadock, V.A. and Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan &Sadock’s Synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th. Ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Reference Books:
- Maj, M. (2005). Personality Disorders. NY: Wiley
- Freeman, A. & Reinecke, M. (2007). Personality Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. NY: Wiley
