personality
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WAPLT? Sociable, Pleasuring, Histrionic: The SPH Spectrum
This group of personalities shares a common characteristic of turning to others as their primary strategy to achieve their goals. Unlike those in the DAD (dependent) spectrum who tend to take a passive dependency stance, the SPH personalities take an active dependency stance. They engage in a variety of manipulative, seductive, gregarious, and attention-getting maneuvers… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Here are the 15 kinds of personality
Millon’s model categorizes fifteen personality disorders around a theoretical normal personality, with three variants from normal to abnormal each. In this post, we will provide an initial map of the fifteen categories of personalities described by Millon. Following Millon, we’ll sort them into several categories and subcategories. This way, I can describe the things some… Continue reading
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Why Are People Like This? 4 Historical Antecedents
Millon begins with the humoral theory of personality, which continues to appear. The following table is illustrative: Table of Hippocrates’ Four Humours Image from Hippocrates, Galen & The Four Humours. In this table we can see how persistent this way of classifying personalities has been. It connects everything from the bodily to the spiritual, from… Continue reading
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Why Are People Like This? 3 Preface to Disorders of Personality
Theodore Millon’s Disorders of Personality: Introducting a DSM/ICD Spectrum from Normal to Abnormal (available here: https://www.amazon.com/Disorders-Personality-Introducing-Spectrum-Abnormal/dp/0470040939) builds a personological taxonomy in accord with his earlier theory in Toward a New Personology. Being the more recent, it includes expansions upon the taxonomy offered previously. It extends the understanding of clincal personality disorders toward normalcy, It also… Continue reading
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Why Are People Like This? 2 Personology 1
Unfortunately, one of the best books I’ve found on Personology has not yet been made digital. Thankfully, it is available fairly cheaply used online, such as here: https://www.amazon.com/Toward-New-Personology-Evolutionary-Model/dp/0471515736. You won’t need it to learn from and enjoy this series of posts, but I like to keep my sources clear. Toward a New Personology: An Evolutionary… Continue reading
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Character
You’re a pirateand you’d better not forgetthat when you step over the threshold of your shippeople will look oddly at you.When you keep on walking down the streetKids will run from you and scream.When you cross the street and step into a storeemployees will revile you and kick you out.If you’ve got no characteryou’ll turn… Continue reading
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Instability
This shell harbors one full cast in desperate need of a crew.Playing each role in stride ignoring the characters’ names on the side.The antagonist just is the protagonist,and her plucky sidekick, too.Don’t look carefully, and you can believe it’s a ruse.Besides, the choreography’s wrong, and the jester’s an agonist.This identity is merely an illusion.Every act… Continue reading
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