The Case Of Paranoid Personality Disorder

Examination of Paranoid Personality Disorder Introduction Paranoid personality disorder is a mental disorder that is classified as a “Class A” or “abnormal behavior.” This means that individuals with a paranoid personality disorder are "overtly" arrogant, mistrustful, suspicious of others, driven, industrious, and even successful in solitary careers, unromantic, typically high-minded and severely observant towards the external environment (Akhtar, 1990). The first descriptive case study of paranoid personality…

Personality disorder has being and issue among therapist and psychiatrist. Also Personality disorder is presently being acknowledged as an essential condition in standard psychiatry over the world. In spite of the fact that it regularly stays unrecognized in customary practice, research studies have demonstrated that it is familiar, makes significant bleakness, is connected with high expenses to administrations and to society, and meddles, generally adversely, with advancement in the treatment of…

Case Report- Paranoid Schizophrenia Background Information 1. Outline the major symptoms of the disorder discussed in the case. Schizophrenia is a complex and incapacitating disorder. It is a disorder marked by significant disturbance in thoughts, perceptions, and moods. The onset of Schizophrenia is said to occur gradually. Symptoms are classified as positive and negative. Positive symptoms or overt behavior not normal in normal individuals include delusions (beliefs that are not reality…

Running head: TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS FROM THE MOVIE “A BEAUTIFUL MIND”: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER Two Psychological Disorders from the Movie “A Beautiful Mind”: Schizophrenia and Paranoid Personality Disorder Your Name Your School Name, State (Country) “A Beautiful Mind,” which is based on the novel by Sylvia Nasar, is the story about the mathematic genius called John Nash. He enters Princeton University in the 1940s to start his studies in the fields of calculus…

Paranoid Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder: Co-occurring Personality disorders affect 10-15% of the adult US population. A personality disorder is a very rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior. According to SAMHSA over 8.9 million persons have co-occurring disorders; that is that they have both mental and substance use disorders. Only 7.4% receive treatment and 55.8% receive no treatment at all. The National Survey on Drug use and Health states that there were 45…

Personality disorders (PD) are inflexible and maladaptive traits in a person, which makes them unable to perform adequately in some of the varied roles expected of them by their society (Butcher, 2013). These chronic and persistent behavioral and emotional disturbances are often difficult to treat. Nonetheless, some of their treatments reflex those of a mentally ill person. A mental illness refers to mental or behavioral patterns or abnormalities that cause either suffering or impaired ability to…

Paranoid Personality Disorders      Paranoid Personality Disorder is a disorder commonly mistaken for schizophrenic personality disorders. Schizophrenia, a psychosis, is when a person is has an image of a world and its transpiring events, and he/she is "living" it. Paranoid Personality Disorder, however, is a neurosis where an individual is living in the real world. This disorder, though not as debilitating as other disorders, can still devastate a someone's…

Have you ever wondered why some people have a change in personality at some point in their life. Most of the time this is because they have a personality disorder (PD). There are ten types of personality disorders: Paranoid PD, Schizoid PD, Schizotypal PD, Antisocial PD, Borderline PD, Histrionic PD, Narcissistic PD, Avoidant PD, Dependent PD and Obsessive-Compulsive PD. This biggest debate in psychology today is whether these personality disorders have something to do with our chemical makeup or if…

Personality Disorder Case Study Male client in his late forties for initial counseling session. He claims that he is only seeking counseling to appease his ageing mother (Laureate Education, 2012). He states his mother is 86 years old and is pushing him to find a girlfriend (Laureate Education, 2012). He states that he is not willing to change his ways to accommodate a relationship (Laureate Education, 2012). Client insists that he does not want a relationship, that he has never wanted one (Laureate…

I would most closely identify with the schizoid-avoidant and paranoid personality types. My inability to trust others or open up completely is due to my view of self as vulnerable and easily taken advantage of when attached to someone. I present myself as an authentic and rebellious person, with an abundance of self-assurance. Beneath this façade is a deep desire for the same understanding and acceptance of my weaker self. My self-sacrificing nature seems altruistic when joined with my dominant…