Case Study: Rejection and Cluster B Personality Psychopathology

This video answers the question: Can I analyze a clinical vignette featuring romantic rejection and Cluster B personality psychopathy?

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), we see nine symptom criteria for borderline personality disorder and five have to be met for a diagnosis. The symptom criteria include frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging, suicidal behavior, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, and paranoid ideation or dissociation. Borderline personality disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder, so it’s in the same cluster is antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder criteria
1. Grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Fantasies of success, power, fame
3. Special or unique
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Sense of entitlement
6. Manipulative
7. Lacks empathy for others
8. Envious and believing others envy you
9. Arrogant attitudes or behaviors

Antisocial Personality Disorder criteria:
1. Repeated unlawful behaviors
2. Consistent deceitfulness
3. Impulsivity, poor planning
4. Aggressiveness, physical fights
5. Reckless disregard for safety
6. Consistent irresponsibility
7. Lack of remorse

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Видео Case Study: Rejection and Cluster B Personality Psychopathology канала Dr. Todd Grande