---------- From: aluger@hushmail.com[SMTP:aluger@hushmail.com] [...] The passive-aggressive (negativistic) personality disorder is located in Appendix B: "Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study" of the DSM- IV. Millon (1996, p. 198) proposes a comprehensive concept of a negativistic personality. He asserts that the negativistic personality reflects both this general contrariness and disinclination to do as others wish but also
presents with a capricious impulsiveness, an irritable moodiness, and an unaccommodating, fault-finding pessimism.
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The general criteria of a personality disorder coupled with at least five of the following is sufficient to warrant a diagonsis of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder: procrastination and delay in completing essential tasks -- particularly those that others seek to have completed; unjustified protests that others make unreasonable demands; sulkiness, irritability or argumentativeness when asked to do something that the individual does not want to do; unreasonable criticism or scorn for authority figures; deliberately slow or poor work on unwanted tasks; obstruction of the efforts of others even as these individuals fail to do their share of the work; and avoidance of obligations by claiming to have forgotten them.
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This author believes that Subject Choate is unlikely to seek treatment individually and should be compelled to seek treatment in whatever fashion is most likely to produce results.
Superb flame. Of course, from the point of view of 'external' viewers, a great many of the subscribers on cypherpunks appear to exibit PAPD with respect to their attitudes towards government authority. Jim is unusual in that his resentment is also directed towards the consensus position on how people should behave on the list (the closest thing to a 'authority' which exists in cypherpunks). Peter Trei