A Novelist Wants to Write a Book Centered on a Character

question 77

Multiple Choice

A novelist wants to write a book centered on a character described as suspicious and on guard all of the time.The character has difficult relationships with friends and relatives as a result of a distrustful nature,he overreacts to minor events that may lead to aggression,and he is delusional.What advice would you give to the novelist?

• A)The symptoms that you describe are rarely seen in adults in this country.
• B)You have accurately described paranoid personality disorder,except that the disorder does not involve delusions.
• C)Your description does not seem to meet the criteria of any of the disorders found in DSM.
• D)You have captured the essence of a series of disorders that tend to be comorbid and untreatable.

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