Empathy with All 10 Personality Disorders | Cognitive vs. Affective Empathy

This video answers the questions: Could I talk about the cognitive and affective empathy with all 10 of the personality disorders?

Cognitive empathy, which is also referred to as theory of mind, is a person’s ability to understand the mental states of other people by looking at those people’s behaviors including facial expressions.

Affective empathy is somebody’s emotional reaction to another person’s affective state.

The 10 Personality Disorders:

Cluster A (odd, eccentric)
Paranoid Personality Disorder: pervasive pattern of distrust and hostility
Schizoid Personality Disorder: a tendency to be unresponsive to social dimensions, a loner
Schizotypal Personality Disorder: odd thinking, magical beliefs

Cluster B (erratic, dramatic)
Antisocial Personality Disorder: criminality, irresponsibility, and impulsivity
Borderline Personality Disorder: fear of abandonment, relationship difficulties
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: grandiose sense of self-importance, arrogance, sense of entitlement
Histrionic Personality Disorder: attention seeking and provocative

Cluster C (anxious, fearful)
Avoidant Personality Disorder: not engaging in social situations out of fear of humiliation and rejection
Dependent Personality Disorder: over relying on somebody for support
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: perfectionism, rigid adherence to rules

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.

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Konrath, S.(2013, in press) A critical analysis of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index.MedEdPORTAL Directory and Repository of Educational Assessment Measures (DREAM).

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