Psychological Aspect of Susan Smith: Dependent Personality Disorder On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith drowned her two sons, Michael and Alex, in the John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina. For nine days she lied about knowing where the boys were. On November 3, she confessed to the killings and would soon go to trial. Susan’s defense team hired a psychiatrist to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of her. She was diagnosed as having dependent personality disorder. He described her as a person who
Avoidant and Dependent Personality Disorder From the second someone is born, his or her personality starts to take shape. In early life, and then later on to their teenage years, the person explores many kinds of behaviors. Of all the behavior, or personalities, the person experiences, one of them will stick with them forever. Some of these behaviors can form personality disorders. “A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking,
lived alone with his mother until her death after suffering from numerous strokes. Her death devastated him she was his only friend and companion. Even after a lifetime of mental and physical abuse he loved her I believe he developed a Dependent Personality Disorder with his mother because he never separated from her. Once considered maybe a little odd not Gein started to show multiple escalated behaviors that were and still to this day are considered some of the most abnormal ever witnessed. Now
Personality disorders are a group of mental disturbances defined by the fourth edition, text revision (2000) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as "enduring pattern[s] of inner experience and behavior" that are sufficiently rigid and deep-seated to bring a person into repeated conflicts with his or her social and occupational environment. Charting the history of efforts to understand personality types and differences among them would involve exploring centuries
are associated with a mental illness after a long period of challenges. She is diagnosed with major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder. Is this the correct diagnosis? I agree with the diagnosis of major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder that was given to Disco Di. The diagnostic features that accompany the major depressive disorder is disorder are the increase rate of
The DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group made several recommendations to change the DSM-IV approach towards diagnosing personality disorders. One of those recommendations was to delete five personality disorders as a way to reduce the level of comorbidity among the disorders. Histrionic, paranoid narcissistic, paranoid and dependent personality disorders were recommended for removal. In the present article, Zimmerman and his colleges evaluated the impact of these recommendations
Personality disorders entails a class of mental disorders that are characterized by permanent maladaptive rhythm of behavior, cognition, and inner experience. The latter have been defined in many circumstances and are markedly deviated from social culture. These behaviors occurs at early age, they are rigid and also associated to distress or disability. However, the definition may alter in accordance to other factors. There are several criteria for overcoming personality disorders from American Psychiatric
factors in to personality development. Psychodynamic therapy approach is centered on discussing, reconstructing, interpreting, and analyzing the experiences and occurrences from childhood. Children who experienced neglect, trauma or abuse during childhood may develop a personality disorder. A range of personality disorders are categorized by emotional, anxious, and impulsive. A few researched personality disorders include: antisocial personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, borderline personality
types of Personality Disorders in the world that we all live in today that most people suffer from on a daily basis. Causing people to avoid certain situation throughout their lives. Some people live their lives as Antisocial or Avoidant, which it causes them to isolate themselves from society or even show little or no empathy towards other people, and people who suffer from these disorders don’t have a problem with breaking the law. According to (Steve Bressert, Ph.D). Most personality disorders have
underlying cause of most cases involving: fear, anxiety, anger, panic attacks (self-esteem attacks), dependence and lack of assertiveness, depression, eating disorders, domestic violence, teen and gang violence, addictive behaviors, relationship problems, child-abuse, social anxiety disorders, avoiding personality disorders, and dependent personality disorders. Self-esteem includes the feelings and thoughts that we have about ourselves, how component we feel, and how optimistic we are that we can succeed
Elizabeth Taylor's ability to psychologically function normally was probably taken away the first time she appeared on screen, at the ripe age of ten. A normal childhood was taken from her. By the time she was 15, she had been in 7 movies, and won the hearts of the entire US in National Velvet. She became a child star. She wasn't the first actress in her family. Her mother had been a successful stage actor before marrying Elizabeth's father. She was born in England, and her family moved to Los
alcoholic or drug abuser is the dependent, and the person involved with the dependent person in any intimate way (spouse, lover, child, sibling, etc.) is the codependent. According to Strickland “Codependence is a ter used to describe a person who is intimately involved with a person who is abusing or addicted to alcohol of other forms of addiction”. The definition of the term needs to be expanded to include anyone showing an extreme degree of certain personality traits including denial, silence
A personality disorder, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that differ markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment (David Bienenfeld, 2010). Normal people that do not have any type of personality
______________________________________________________ Research Paper Begins Here The positive libidinal feelings of a child to the parent of the opposite sex and hostile or jealous feelings toward the parent of the same sex that may be a source of adult personality disorder when unresolved. It is a pattern of profound emotional ambivalence, a troublesome mixture of love and hate. The Oedipus Complex occurs during the phallic stage, from roughly ages 3-6 years. Freud believed that during this stage boys seek
understanding of his misery and suffering. The Lawyer The lawyer, as successful of a businessman that he is, shows signs of an avoidant personality disorder in the very beginning of the story. He severely dislikes confrontation, possibly because it either gives him anxiety, or he is hypersensitive to negative situations; some would call individuals with this disorder “people pleasers”. Whether or not the lawyer has a true clinical problem, he definitely appears to be a people pleaser. As a manager
her suicide threats are the result of actual suicidal feelings. I do not believe that her threats are credible at this point. For these reasons, I narrowed down the possible diagnoses, and eliminated major depressive disorder. The last and most accurate is histrionic personality disorder (p. 667). Karmen meets the following criteria: uncomfortable when not the center of attention, “inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior” (American Psychological Association, p. 667), shallow emotional
In this paper, I am going to present the personality disorders and from which age it starts to develop. So what is personality disorder? “A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and behaving. A person with a personality disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people.” (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2016) People with personality disorders can have a variety of emotions, behaviors that are not usual, this
I decided to study the movie Shrek and to talk about how the main character Shrek shows the psychological disorder of Schizoid Personality Disorder. The schizoid personality disorder is characterized by a strong problem with in the establishment of the person themselves, and the way they are viewed towards others. A person with schizotypal personality disorder shows a fear of social situations and tries to avoid being in the situation at any times due to fear. They do not have any close friends or
Clusters of Personality Disorders Carianne Lewandowski Empire State College Introduction People have a different way of feeling, thinking and behaving that makes them look different from other individuals. This trait is referred to as personality, and is influenced by things such as environment, personal life experiences as well as inherited characteristics. A person is described to have developed a personality disorder if the way of feeling, thinking, and behaving deviates from the cultural expectations
Echo Personality Disorder The term Echo Personality Disorder was coined by British Psychosynthesis practitioner Patrick Hurst, as a replacement term for 'Inverted Narcissism' and 'Covert Narcissism' which later terms place unwarranted emphasis on narcissistic qualities of the personality, which in many of these individuals may not be a feature at all. EPD is a highly differentiated form of Dependent Personality Disorder, marked by behaviours of compliance and a need to 'mirror' significant