Disordered Creatures

Assignment 1: Personality Disorder in Creatures

What to expect?

• Maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition and inner experience.

• Impaired psychosocial functioning

• Inevitable subjectivity

• experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control

Types

• Paranoid : pattern of irrational suspicion and mistrust of others

• Schizoid : lack of interest and detachment from social relationships

• Schizotypal : pattern of extreme discomfort interacting socially

• Antisocial : pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others

• Borderline : pervasive pattern of abrupt mood swings

• Narcissistic : pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration

• Histrionic : pervasive pattern of attention-seeking behavior and excessive emotions

• Avoidant : pervasive feelings of social inhibition and inadequacy

• Dependent : pervasive psychological need to be cared for by other people

• Obsessive Compulsive : rigid conformity to rules, perfectionism, and control to the point of satisfaction

• Sadistic : pervasive pattern of cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behavior

• Masochistic : behavior consequently undermining the person's pleasure and goals

Flowers

Drawings of flowers as creatures associated with the way that I perceive these disorders