What is it about?
The goal of this paper is to try and close the gap between the ways in which pathological and normal personality, including their development, are conceptualized.
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Why is it important?
This paper offers a unique perspective on the link between normal and abnormal personality.
Perspectives
Self pathology is argued to link to a higher-order dimension of abnormal personailty referred to as 'Acting Out'. Interpersonal pathology is argued to link to a different higher-order dimension labelled 'Anxious-Inhibited'. With reference to Fig. 1, Psychopathy broadly conceived – low agreeableness+low conscientiousness – encompasses the quadrants defined in the figure by high Disinhibition. But within this broad band of personality pathology, there is a bifurcation between a more agentically extroverted/relatively stable form (Acting Out) characterised by high Delta-Minus/sensation seeking, and an introverted/neurotic form (Anxious-Inhibited) characterised by Pssiveness and Disharmony.
Dr Richard C Howard
Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK
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This page is a summary of: “Self” and “other”: A conceptual bridge linking normal with pathological personality, Frontiers in Psychiatry, October 2022, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1023236.
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