Re: Assignment 5 - Interesting career-related topic

This time, the course that I found interesting in psychology, it's about the psychopatological area of psychology. I like this area because it take information, about the mental illness and their teraphies, from various visions of the psychology's spectrum of theories.

A topic that I learned and I want to learn more, it's the personality disorders (most formerly knows as Characteriological disorder). This type of mental illness stay in the middle of the normal-anormal division, and they cause to the people that has theses disorders personal and social disfunctions and dificulties.

These disorders, are grouped in three clusters, that I quote here:

Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)

Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder

Cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders)

Antisocial personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder

Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)

Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder (not the same as Dysthymia)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as Obsessive-compulsive disorder)

Otto Kernberg, has a theory that explains three mental-psichic schemes: Neurotic, Border-line and Psychotic. This theory fits very well with the description of the three cluster, quoted above.

Some links that I found interesting about this topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorders

This site is in discussion yet, but have the description for all the disorders.

http://www.pdq4.com

This is the website of the most effective test to recognize any personal disorders.

http://www.kivaspirit.org/Counseling/persintro.html

This webpage contains a pdq4-based test. Contains the instructions to take the test. At the end of the page there is a link with the questionnaire (you can answer it, and found something, If you have a disorder xD).

That's it!

Greetings to all!