Discussion: Personality Disorders, Traits, and Behaviors

Personality Disorders, Traits, and Behaviors A patient has confided in you that he/she has had multiple extramarital short-term sexual relationships. Please provide psychodynamic, developmental, emotional, trauma, mood, and/or interpersonal perspectives from the literature on this topic. Your job is not to diagnosis, treat, or come to any conclusions about a specific patient, but rather to explore etiologies and perspectives on human behavior and relationships. This case study is meant to quell bias and negative attitudes and to gain a deeper understanding of how we look at human behaviors. I am not interested in whether you agree or not with your peers' statements. Please avoid comments such as "as providers we must remember to remain unbiased" or "our role is not to judge." These are quite obvious and overused themes that offer us nothing new. Please, no personal disclosure or personal experiences about this topic. NO journalistic or social media styles of writing please. Your job is to present what the peer-reviewed scientific literature has to offer. Use peer-reviewed JOURNAL ARTICLES within the last 5 years. Synthesize and cite. Do not write for example "A study by Lopez, Johnson and Dahlgren (2007) found. Just paraphrase what the findings are and cite. The articles for reading are suggestions for areas to explore. They do not represent the totality of the topic. Find your own articles that provide research into specific aspects of this very broad topic. Concepts and definitions may vary greatly. The common theme for such an exercise is that "there is so much more to the topic" and we ought to know more in order to serve patients, families and communities better. I sent you a couples journal examples. Please DO NOT use them