Personality Disorders

A patient with borderline personality traits sees people as either entirely good or entirely bad and cannot experience ambivalence toward them. Which defense mechanism is illustrated?

A lonely patient creates an imaginary life to cope with loneliness. Which defense mechanism is being used?

A patient exhibits perfectionism, punctuality, excessive devotion to work, indecisiveness and restricted expression of warm feelings. Which personality type is described?

Which defense mechanism involves the forgetting of unpleasant feelings and associations?

What is the treatment of choice for personality disorders?

Somatization disorder is associated with which personality disorder?

Which personality disorder belongs to cluster A?

A patient separates an unacceptable idea from the emotion associated with it. Which defense mechanism does this represent?

When do enduring personality traits constitute a personality disorder?

A patient attributes their own unacceptable thoughts and feelings to another person. Which defense mechanism does this illustrate?

When do inflexible and maladaptive personality traits constitute a personality disorder?

A patient with a personality disorder sees no need to change his behaviour and believes that the world is out of step with him. Which description best fits his experience?

Which pattern of behaviour characterizes abnormal personality?

How may the manifestations of abnormal personality change in middle or old age?

Under which ICD-10 section are personality disorders listed?

What is the approximate prevalence of personality disorder in the general population?

A patient experiences internally distressing, self-induced symptoms but remains unable to alter the associated behaviour. How are these symptoms described?