‘Personality Disorders’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 10

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Over 1000 Reader Comments and Questions on ‘Losers’ and Personality Disorders

To help our server deliver a snappier response time for the thousands of readers of our threads on Dr Carver’s ‘Loser’ article — the most recent of which has attracted over 350 new comments, we’re going to open this new thread and close the previous one. Combined with around 175 questions on personality disorders submitted to the ‘Ask the Psychologist’ service, we’ve now had over 1000 questions and comments from readers affected by this topic.

Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

Understanding the Unbridled Aggressive Personality

Despite frequent social sanctions, aggressive personalities often persist in their aggressive defiance of society’s rules and limits.

Dr George Simon, PhD

Personality Disorders Article Now Available in Spanish

Many readers will know the work of our Consulting Clinical Psychologist Dr Carver work on dealing with personality disorders in relationships. His popular article on identifying ‘losers’ in relationships has now been professionally translated into Spanish.

Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

Understanding the Aggressive Personalities, Part 2

By far the most limiting aspect of traditional approaches to understanding the most character-disturbed individuals among us is that purely behavioral descriptions don’t capture the essence of what is unhealthy and problematic in them.

Dr George Simon, PhD

Understanding the Aggressive Personalities

Aggressive personalities are fundamentally at war with anything that stands in the way of their unrestrained pursuit of their desires.

Dr George Simon, PhD

Understanding “Splitting” as a Psychological Term

Splitting refers to the unconscious failure to integrate aspects of self or others into a unified whole. The age old conscious and deliberate game of “dividing and conquering” is not the same as splitting.

Dr George Simon, PhD

When Passive-Aggression isn’t Very Passive

Often when someone says that another person is being “passive-aggressive,” they really mean something else. Let’s clarify just what passive-aggression is — and what it isn’t — with the help of a framework for understanding human aggression in general.

Dr George Simon, PhD

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