The Passive-Aggressive (Negativistic) Personality Disorder (P APD) Case Study: Jim Choate

[Trei, Peter]

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> From: 	aluger at hushmail.com[SMTP:aluger at 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.
> 
	[...]

> 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.
> 
	[......]

> 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