Personality Disorders and States of Aloneness (Value Inquiry Book: Philosophy and Psychology: Intimacy and Aloneness, 2, 246)

This book is the second volume of an interdisciplinary study, chiefly one of philosophy and psychology, which concerns personality, especially the abnormal in terms of states of aloneness, primarily that of the negative emotional isolation customarily known as loneliness. Other states of aloneness investigated include solitude, reclusiveness, seclusion, desolation, isolation, and what the author terms “aloneliness,” “alonism,” “lonism,” and “lonerism.” Insofar as this study most explicitly focuses on abnormal personalities, it employs the general and specific definitions of personality aberrations as formulated by the American Psychiatric Association in its latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). The author views personality as preeminently comprised of the individual's interpersonal relationships. Unlike the DSM-IV, he proposes that people with personality disorders not only possibly but necessarily manifest deviancy regarding interpersonal functioning via serious shortcomings in shared inwardness, paramountly reciprocated intimacy. This work also engages in an analysis of five social factors that are conducive to predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining negative kinds of personality and aloneness. The author has formed these factors into an acronym titled SCRAM since when they are present, intimacy scurries away and in its absence, loneliness and other sorts of unwanted aloneness scamper in and fill the person with unhappiness via, for instance, sadness and self-worthlessness. The constituents of SCRAM are the following social illnesses: Successitis (for example, the fixation on fame and fortune), Capitalitis (greed-driven, unfettered capitalism), Rivalitis (competitivitis), Atomitis (hyper-individualism), and Materialitis (for example, the anti-spirituality of consumeritis). In sum, this book provides a different perspective on personality via the lenses of various types of aloneness and their lack of public and private intimacy, especially love. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents EDITORIAL FOREWORD BY MARK LETTERI PREFACE ONE Introduction 1. The DSM Personality Disorders 2. Personality Disorder Units: Groups and Clusters 3. SCRAM: Five American Societal Illnesses and a Facilitator of Pathological Personalities 4. Personality Disorder Classification Models: The DSM Categorical and FFM Dimensional TWO Aloneness 1. Introduction 2. Loneliness: Its Notion 3. Loneliness: A Classification 4. Fundamental Interpersonal Motivations 5. Personality Disorders and Motivational Modalities 6. Aloners 7. States of Aloneness and Personality Disorders: Amplification and Summation THREE The Aloneness of Solipsism 1. Solipsism and Existence 2. A Fivefold Division 3. The Solipsistic Self 4. Psychological Solipsism 5. Psychotic Solipsism and Loneliness 6. Schizophrenic Isolation 7. Schizophrenics and the Ten Types of Loneliness 8. The Schizophrenic Spectrum 9. The “Schizoidic” Condition 10. Egological Solipsism 11. Solipsism and the “Lone(ly) Thinker” FOUR Personality: Its Nature and Number 1. Personality: Problem and Mystery 2. The Person: The Most Special Individual 3. Autonomy and Homonomy 4. Atomism and Monism 5. Personality: Changeless or Changing 6. Personality Structures: Body, Mind, and Soul 7. Personality Functions: Cognitive, Emotive, and Conative 8. Personality: Constitutional and Characterological Components 9. Personality: Normality, Abnormality, and Supranormality 10. The Interface between the Normal and Abnormal Personality 11. Personality: Health and Happiness 12. Personality and Mental-Moral Health: Par, Subpar, and Suprapar FIVE Personality: Its Disorders 1. Personality: Intimacy, Loneliness, and Health 2. Personality Disorders: Self-Centeredness and the Lack of Intimacy 3. Personality and Interpersonality 4. The DSM: Personality Disorders and Interpersonality 5. Two Taxonomies of Personality Disorders 6. Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Loneliness SIX Personality Pathologies: Failures in Intimate Relatedness 1. The Pathological Personality: A Failure at Interpersonality 2. Personality Disorders: Insufficient, Off the Mark, and Toxic 3. Personality Disturbances as Mental Trait Disorders 4. Personality Disorders: Abnormalities in Relatedness 5. Personality Disturbances as Interaction Disorders 6. Personality Disorders as Originating in the Family 7. The Pervasiveness of Loneliness and Personality Disorders 8. The DSM and Interpersonal Connections 9. Possible Locations of Loneliness in the DSM Divisions of Mental Disorders and Mental Problems SEVEN Personality Disorder Divisions 1. Multiple versus Single Foundations for Aggregating Personality Disorders 2. Lack of Clarity and Coherence in the DSM Clustering System 3. Personality Disorders as Psycho-Ethical Failures 4. Personality Disorders and Gender 5. Personality Disorders: Syntonicity and Dystonicity 6. Conflict with Self or Others 7. Personality Disorders: Approach and Avoidance 8. The Dionysian and Apollonian Archetypes 9. Personality Integrations and Disintegrations: Negative and Positive 10. Personality: Autonomy and Homonomy 11. Deficiencies in Current Personality Disorder Theory 12. Categorical and Dimensional Paradigms EIGHT Personality Disorders, Neuroticism, and Loneliness 1. Neuroticism and Personality Disorders 2. Loneliness and Neurotic Traits 3. The Negativism of Lonelies and Neurotics 4. Loneliness and the Negativism of Pessimism and Cynicism 5. The Ranking of the FFM Neurotic Traits and the Personality Disorder Groupings 6. Four Ways of Allying Loneliness with Personality Traits and Disorders NINE Personality Constituents: Choice, Compellment, and Chance 1. Self-Determinism (Freedom) 2. Determinism (Necessitarianism) 3. Indeterminism (Chance) 4. The Limits of Self-Determinism 5. Mental State and Mental Trait Disorders: Causality and Acausality 6. Freedom and Normality of Personality 7. Personality Disorders and Choice 8. Personologists: Self-Determinism versus Determinism 9. Self-Determinism, Determinism, and Heritability 10. Personality Disorders: Freedom, Necessitarianism, and Chance TEN Amenability to Personality Change: Theories, Therapies, and Therapists 1. Personality Change 2. Amenability to Therapy 3. Personality: Alteration and the Five Factor Model 4. Loneliness and Amenability to Therapy 5. Optimal Therapies 6. Optimal Therapists 7. Therapies, Therapists, and the Normative CONCLUSION WORKS CITED Appendix A: SCRAM: Five American Social Illnesses Appendix B: Five Factor Model of Personality (FFM) Appendix C: DSM-IV Personality Disorders ABOUT THE AUTHOR NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX This book is the second volume of an interdisciplinary study, chiefly one of philosophy and psychology, which concerns personality, especially the abnormal in terms of states of aloneness, primarily that of the negative emotional isolation customarily known as loneliness. Other states of aloneness investigated include solitude, reclusiveness, seclusion, desolation, isolation, and what the author terms "aloneliness," "alonism," "lonism," and "lonerism." Insofar as this study most explicitly focuses on abnormal personalities, it employs the general and specific definitions of personality aberrations as formulated by the American Psychiatric Association in its latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) . The author views personality as preeminently comprised of the individual's interpersonal relationships. Unlike the DSM-IV , he proposes that people with personality disorders not only possibly but necessarily manifest deviancy regarding interpersonal functioning via serious shortcomings in shared inwardness, paramountly reciprocated intimacy. This work also engages in an analysis of five social factors that are conducive to predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining negative kinds of personality and aloneness. The author has formed these factors into an acronym titled SCRAM since when they are present, intimacy scurries away and in its absence, loneliness and other sorts of unwanted aloneness scamper in and fill the person with unhappiness via, for instance, sadness and self-worthlessness. The constituents of SCRAM are the following social S uccessitis (for example, the fixation on fame and fortune), C apitalitis (greed-driven, unfettered capitalism), R ivalitis (competitivitis), A tomitis (hyper-individualism), and M aterialitis (for example, the anti-spirituality of consumeritis). In sum, this book provides a different perspective on personality via the lenses of various types of aloneness and their lack of public and private intimacy, especially love. This interdisciplinary book concerns personality, especially intimacy, principally love, and its absence in states of aloneness, primarily loneliness. The author argues that normal and preeminently supranormal personalities are chiefly constituted by intimate connections. Correspondingly, he proposes that the serious shortage of such shared inwardness is the nucleus of every type of personal abnormality V. 1. Intimacy And Isolation -- V. 2. Personality Disorders And States Of Aloneness. John G. Mcgraw. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.