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DISORDER
AND MANAGEMENT
Block XVIII
Carla R Marchira
Psychiatry Department
Gadjah Mada Medical School
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Personality Disorder and Management
Introduction
Personality: persons observable behavior and his
or her subjectively reportable inner experience (Sadock &
Sadock, 2003)
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Personality Disorder and Management
Classification
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Etiology:
Genetic Factors:
Study of 15,000 twins in US showed among
monozygotic twins the concordance for personality
disorder several times >< dizygotic twins
Biological Factors:
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Psychoanalytic Factors:
Defense Mechanisms of PD
1. Fantasy
2. Dissociation
3. Projection
4. Splitting
5. Passive Aggressive
6. Acting Out
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Personality Disorder and Management
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Clinical Features:
Pervasive and unwarranted tendency to interpret
other persons action as demeaning and
threatening
Treatment:
Psychotherapy:
Treatment of choice
Straightforward
Do not use overly warm style
Group psychotherapy is not suggested
Pharmacotherapy:
Antianxiety
Small dosage antypsychotic
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Schizoid Personality Disorder
Treatment:
Psychotherapy: similar with paranoid pd
Treatment:
Psychoterapy: similar with schizoid pd
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Treatment:
Psychotherapy: Self-help group (among peers)
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Treatment:
Psychotherapy:
treatment of choice
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Treatment:
Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytically oriented
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Treatment:
Psychotherapy: remain difficult
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Treatment:
Psychotherapy: group therapy
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Clinical Features: pervasive pattern of dependent and submissive
behavior,
hard to make decision, avoid position and leadership role,
pessimism, self-
doubt, passivity, fears of expressing sexual and aggressive feelings
Treatment:
Psychotherapy: treatment of choice with successful outcome
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Treatment:
Psychotherapy: group therapy and behavioral therapy
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Personality Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified
Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
Characterized by: covert obstructionism, procrastination,
stubbornness,
inefficiency, negativistic pd
Treatment:
Psychotherapy: supportive psychotherapy
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Pharmacotherapy: depend on the features
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Depressive Personality Disorder
Characterized by: depressive spectrum, pessimistic, anhedonic, duty
bound,self-doubting, chronically unhappy, newly classified,
melancholic personality (20th century)
Treatment:
Psychotherapy: treatment of choice 32
Pharmacotherapy: antidepressants
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Personality Change due to a General Medical
Condition
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