Personality disorders
Description
Personality disorders come in various varieties and degrees of severity, including persistent, ingrained behavior patterns; extreme deviant behavior; and problems in social functioning. Histrionic disorder, anankastic disorder, anxiety disorder, and dependent disorder are the common categories. This program, filmed in the U.K., looks at the most common disorders-paranoid, histrionic, and dissocial. It describes their symptoms and criteria for diagnosis. Patients exhibit the symptoms in interviews conducted by psychiatrists.
Runtime
26 min
Series
Subjects
- Borderline personality disorder (20)
- Personality disorders (26)
- Antisocial personality disorders (15)
- Mental illness (325)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1997
Database
Films on Demand
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