Personality

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Personality

Types of accentuated personalities:


1. Demonstrative
- Being in the center of attention
- Egocentric
- Fantasy, lying
2. Pedantic
- rigid, inert mental processes
- Rarely participate in conflicts
- Difficulty in making decisions
- Work as burocrats
3. Rigid
- Tend to have affects
- Seek for truth
- Supsicious
- Remember insults
- Very ambitious
4. Hyperthymic
- Mood is always elevated
- Active
- Can’t fit into discipline requirements,
monotonous work
- Can’t stay alone
5. Explosive
- Tend to explode
- Ambitious
- Rigid affect
6. Dysthymic
- Serious
- Slow
- Weak will power
- Bad mood
- Quiet
- Sense of justice
- Tend to see dark side of the life
7. Anxious
- Shy, lack of self-confidence
- Fears, anxiety
- Rarely participate in conflicts
- Friendly
- Self-criticism
- Conscientious  
8. Exalted
- High range of emotional states
- Argue without conflicts
- Talkative
9. Emotive
- Sensitive
- They like animals, nature, people
- Golden heart
- Sympathetic
10. Cyclothymic
- Emotions change easily and depend
on circumstances
Attitudes towards illness
1. Harmonic
2. Ergopathic – “dives” into work
3. Anosognostic – denies having the
disease
4. Anxious – many consultations and
analyses
5. Hypochondriacal – multiple
complaints
6. Neurasthenic – can’t bare pain,
tears, irritation
• Attitudes towards illness
7. Melancholic – depressive mood,
suicidal thoughts, pessimistic,
doesn’t believe in recovering
8. Apathetic – indifferent about the
outcome of the disease, passive
compliance
9. Sensitive – concerned about other
people’s opinion
• Attitudes towards illness
10. Egocentric – “dives” into the
disease, other people are considered
as competitors for attention
11. Paranoial – suspicious, demanding,
can sue the doctors
12. Dysphoric – aggressive, bad mood,
anger, envy and hatred towards
healthy people
• Components of the reaction on the
disease
1. Sensations
2. Emotional
3. Intellectual
4. Sensitive (socially oriented)
5. Motivational
• Stages of dying
1. Denying – “It can’t be”
2. Protesting – “Why me?”
3. Asking to postpone the end – “Not
now”
4. Reactive depression
5. Accepting personal death

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