Psych on one page
(A speculative, practical, heuristic approach)
(c) 2022, 2015 Vasos Panagiotopoulos
Animals are born with minds fully formed hence instinct. Human brains form
by age five to be more adaptible and develop two of the twelve personality
types. When a crisis occurs, the personality type becomes a
psychosis. (Antipsychotics treat intensity not type. Emergency care for
breakdown or psychosis invoves cold shower, restraint and empthy not
judgement.) When this persists, the nerve pathways become engrained and
harder to change, hence a personality disorder. Disorders are divided into
serotonergic mood disorders (Histrionic, Obsessive) and dopaminergic thought
disorders (schiz). DSM3 was the last categorisation before sexual correctness
was enforced by lobbyist lawsuit. It is worth noting that some disfunction is
a motivator and that a totally sane homoclite is as productive as
cattle. Furthermore, neither opposites nor likes attract, but complements,
people whose combined lacks and strengths multiply each other. The mind is
hardware (nous), the personality is firmware (psyche, outer garment of skin)
and the soul is software (pnevma).
MASOCHIST: Fear Success, Seek Pain, Altruist, Artless, Nonjudgemental,
Endurant, Resents being unappreciated. Typically monastic, peasant. Attila
the nun was enraged her supposed sacrifices went unappreciated. Exploited by
frightening. Encourage to demand and protest. Writes large, rounded, crosses
t high. Likes Purple. Cingulate gyrus.
OBSESSIVE: Perfectionist, Inflexible, Controlling, Indecisive, Hoarding,
Undemonstrative. Overreact to real problems, absent mindedness prompts
repetition. Typically accountant, engineer, hunter, shepherd.
Streptococus/mycin induced. Dogs as pets. Born in mild weather. Mellows with
alcohol. Encourage to enjoy, ignore, prioritise. Writes with open circles,
round dots, no slant but angular shapes. Likes Brown, Blue. Cingulate gyrus,
hypohippocampal.
DEPENDENT: Affective, Seeks company, Fears alone, Unintimate, Deferring,
Considerate. Typically housewife. Encourage to anger, opine, be self
sufficient; Accompany them. Writes high endstrokes, rounded. Likes Purple,
Blue. Cingulate gyrus, Hypofrontal, hypohippocampal.
SCHIZOID: Indifferent, Unemotional, Aloof, Friendless. Encourage to
observe emotions, express, endure. Born during worseningly cold
weather. Writes left slanted, no endrstroke, small, crosses t lightly. Likes
White, Yellow. Hypofrontal, hippocampal, hypoparietal.
SCHIZOTYPAL: Idiosyncratic, Illusions, Superstitious, Visionary, Eccentric
Odd. Random synapses fire awake as if dreaming hence confuse reality with
fantasy. Typically mystic, homeless. Trigered by recreational drigs. Born
during worseningly cold weather. Encourage to compromise, study differences,
do for others. Writes tangles, no dots, frequent breaks, upward endstroke.
Exploited by magical claims. Likes Blue. Hypofrontal, hypohippocampal,
hypoparietal.
SCHIZOPARANOID: Suspicious, Sneaky, Fears Inferiority, Perceptive,
Vengeful, cheat, unlisted. Typically politician, academic, farmer. Bullock
said Hitler and Stalin were narcissistic-paranoid. Denies/resists sci/psy.
Cats as pets. Toxoplasmosis/Retrovirus HER-V. Born in bad weather or other
cortisol stress. Violent from alcohol, mellow with tobacco. Encourage
toleration and veiwing mistakes as unulterior. Writes small, narrow, knots on
circular letters, tapered right slant. Likes Pink. Hypofrontal, hypoparietal.
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE: Seeks "rights", feels is ok, Critical, Resistant, Work
avoiding. Typically labor leader, bureaucrat. Autumn born. Encourage to make
work fun and do now so free time later. Writes uneven spacing, pressure,
slant Exploited by exaggerating rewards. Likes Yellow, Green. Temporal,
hypohippocampal, hypocyngulate.
HISTRIONIC: Flips mood, Seductive, Exaggerated, Shallow, Grudgeless, Kind,
Flippant, Immediate Satisfaction, Seek Reassurance. Somatise into
hypochondria or convert to dissociation (mood swings turn into personality
swings). Born during warmest weather. Birds as pets. Typically abused,
actor, teacher, islander. Promiscuity and homosexuality manifest the need to
find a nurturing substitute for an abusive parent. Dissociates into multiple
personalities when abusive stress is unbearable. Encourage to reassure,
plan. Writes with variable slant and size and large lower loops. Likes
Green. Hypohippocampal, frontal, parietal, temporal, hypocyngulate.
BORDERLINE: Affective, Angry, Bored, Mood flipping, Unstable,
Suicidal. Typically Creative. PTSD? Encourage to study others and
deintensify. Need directed calm and order. Writes rounded m, n. Likes
Purple. Frontal, parietal, hypohippocampal, temporal, hypocyngulate. Born
in bad weather or other cortisol stress.
NARCISIST: Entitled, Expects Success, Exploitative, Envious, Intolerant,
Lemming, Typically financier. Encourage see own faults, seek criticism, ask
others about selves. Writes wide loops, uphill, arcade. Likes Blue,
Green. Prefrontal, hypohippocampal, temporal, parietal, cyngulate.
SADISTIC: Disciplinarian, Gutsy, Expedient, Cruel, Intimidating. Typically
military, police, journalist. Reptiles as pets. Encourage compromise and
toleration, discourage anger and bossiness. Writes blotchy, heavy downward t
cross, left slant. Likes Red. Prefrontal.
SOCIOPATH: Reckless, remorseless, Vandal, Cruel, Impulsive,
Dishonest. Typically criminal. Lack of physically stronger adult leaves
adolescent aggression unchecked. Testosterone. ADD. Encourage worry,
consider, protect, plan. Writes left open and hooked, blotchy, tight t, no
initial stroke. Likes Black. Prefrontal, temporal, hypocungulate.
People block facts inconsistent with their core beliefs (Wildavsky
1982&1987). Paranoid individualists think their opponents are all from the
deep state. Narcisistic egalitarians think all their opponents form a
criminal mafia cabal opposed to mamma state. Obsessive hierarchicals think
anyone against them is a demonic heretic. Passive aggressive fatalists think
everything is rigged.
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky warned how we are blinded by heuristic
biases, which make decisions faster, but not always better. Attribute
substitution substitutes a more easily calculated heuristic attribute.
Availability bias relies on immediate examples. Anchoring uses the most
recent information. We prefer avoiding losses almost twice than acquiring
gains. Framing excludes information that appears out of contaxt. Hindsight
thinks events were more predictable than they were. Accepted theories often
blind us to extremes. Yuval Hariri says humans are the only animal that puts
ideas ahead of reality. Ideology is idolatry, teh curse of the Eden apple.
Maslow postulated that needs have hierarchy (Food, Shelter, Family,
Neighbors, Self-esteem, Self-actualization, then Transcendence. Nations
exceeding 1980 $300 GDP/capita demand democracy because they have risen in
Maslow's hierarchy, nations falling become politically chaotic. Viktor
Frankl's 1946 Search for Meaning argued the way a concentration prisoner
imagined the future affected his longevity. Waterloo neuroscientist Colin
Ellard argues city dwellers have a 40% increased risk of depression and
double the rate of schizophrenia. Faris & Dunham (1939) showed psychiatric
ailments are more prominant in city dwellers arguing it was caused by
deprivation. Vassos & Pedersen (2012) confirmed this. But perhaps only when
one is sufficiently high in the maslovian scale does one get mentally ill.
Ref: Personality: Oldham & Morris 1990; Handwritting: Byrd 1982; Color:
Stober 2000, Schaie 1966, Birren 1973; Socarides; Aristotle; Colin deYoung,
MHFA USA 2016.