philosophy
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WAPLT? Dejected, Forlorn, Melancholic: The DFM Spectrum
People on the DFM spectrum typically experience chronic feelings of sadness and depression that persist even when things are going well. According to the Darwinian evolutionary model, these individuals are oriented to the pain polarity and tend to behave in a passive, giving-up manner. As with the others, the spectrum has three levels, with varying… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Apathetic, Asocial, Schizoid: The AAS Spectrum
The relevance of variance in the capacity for pain and pleasure to personality includes several possibilities. The AAS spectrum is a classification that includes individuals with deficiencies in both pain and pleasure polarity objectives, meaning they lack the ability to experience events as painful or pleasurable. Two variants of the socially detached pattern are the… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Assertive, Denigrating, Sadistic: The ADS Spectrum
In contrast with the AAM spectrum, this variant of pleasure-pain reversal is paradoxical and discordant, as it views pain (such as stress, fear, and cruelty) as the preferred way of actively relating to others, rather than pleasure. The intrapsychically conflicted personality spectra include the RCC compulsive, DRN negativistic, ADS sadistic, and AAM masochistic personalities. These… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Abused, Aggrieved, Masochistic: The AAM Spectrum
This post explores the abused, aggrieved, and masochistic (AAM) personality spectrum, characterized by a reversal of the pleasure-pain polarity that leads to a preference for pain in intimate relationships. Self-defeating behaviors are pervasive and can be observed across different areas of life such as school, work, and social relationships. Self-defeating individuals tend to avoid or… Continue reading
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WAPLT? Reliable, Constricted, Compulsive: The RCC Spectrum
In developed nations, people who demonstrate a mild variant of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder are more common than any other personality style. Unlike those with the disordered state, these individuals lead a well-disciplined and organized lifestyle that enables them to function efficiently and successfully in most of their endeavors. If things go wrong, they feel discomfort,… 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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Addressing Student Use of ChatGPT for Cheating
ChatGPT is a thing now, and teachers of every level and discipline that ask students to write papers are trying to figure out how to stop students from just having the computer do their homework for them. My way is to look at the sources first, because ChatGPT will generate bibliographies that look real but… 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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