Dr George Simon, PhD’s Articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 20

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Dr George Simon, PhD has published the following articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.

What is a Character Disorder? Part 2: Questions and Comments

Last updated 17th September 2008

Several intriguing comments and questions have been posted in reply to my earlier articles on character disturbance. In this post, I’d like to address some of these and the issues which readers have raised.

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Neurosis vs. Character Disorder: Contrasting Needs in Therapy

Last updated 16th September 2008

Whereas neurotics need and value insight in therapy, disordered characters are already keenly aware of their attitudes and behaviors that cause problems. They already see, they just disagree.

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Neurosis vs. Character Disorder: Levels of Awareness

Last updated 15th September 2008

When I politely but firmly stopped accepting “I don’t know” for an answer from my character-disturbed clients, I was astonished at how easily I began to get more straightforward answers that actually made sense.

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What is a Character Disorder?

Last updated 10th September 2008

Personality and character disorders are not the same thing. Our personality defines the stylistic way we tend to interact, while our character is defined by the level of social conscientiousness and virtue in our personality. When personality or character traits present major obstacles to functioning in a healthy way, they might constitute a disorder.

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Disturbances of Character

Last updated 8th September 2008

Almost all the principles of traditional psychology are based upon the attempts of various theorists to explain a phenomenon rare for its time and almost totally unheard of in modern times. Character disturbance — not neurosis — is the pressing psychological reality of our day and simply can’t be understood or dealt with using traditional paradigms.

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