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PCD Personality Style

This is a Parallel Conceptualization and Description of the Egopathic Personality Style

(behaviors which are subclinical Psychopathy and Narcissistic, O-C, Borderline, and Anti-Social Personality Disorders)

The Letters	Primary aims	Interpersonal style	Behavioral Goal is to	Communication Style
P	Power	Punitive	Persuade, Press	Pejorative
C	Control	Controlling	Censure	Condescending
D	Direction & Domination	Dominating	Direct	Deprecatory

Perceived, Constructed, and Developed by Cedric Wood, Ph.D.

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The Letters

Scientists who study

PCD Persons look at their

PCDs are identifiable by their observable

The PCD Personality is a

P

Personality,

Pattern of Personality

Partial Presentation of traditional

C

Character, and

Characteristics and

Character

D

Disposition

Dimensions

Disorders in the DSM-IV

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These PCD traits seem to be

Imperviousness characterizes this

PCDs are Towers of strength and yet have a

The

Persistent,

Personality, as it

Preternatural need and

PCD Person's

Consistent across Contexts, and

Counters all our

Compulsion to maintain Control over any situation

Capacity for Change is

Durable (ie. resistant to change.)

Demands for change

Disconcerting to them.

Dependent on the extent of the Childhood Trauncil*

4 PCD Bosses

Positive Attributes

PCDs are often confusing because they can present as such high quality, lovable Denizens.

PCDs can very often be	On the job, PCDs are impressive because they	Work Style: PCDs are unusually	In business, the PCD is often the	PCD’s
Prepossessing and Pretty. They are	Perform well and are very	Productive, Persistent, Proficient,	Powerhouse, the	Physical beauty and stature is impressive and
Charismatic, Charming,	Capable, "Conscientious,"	Competent, and	Catalyst for explosive growth, the	Commands respect but their Conduct and
Dynamic, Dashing and Debonair	Diligent and Detail-oriented	Driven with Dogged Determination	Dynamite and Driving force behind the new successes.	Deportment Doesn’t Deserve respect in the Denouement

PCD Bosses might engage in	PCD Bosses love to	As a result: employees feel	Suffering employees have to deal with the
Pointed sarcasm	Put down, fault-find,	Pummeled,	Piddling PCD
Condemnation	Criticize and	Censured,	Crap that is daily
Defamation, Derogation, and Domination	Demean those who annoy them, get in their way, or who stand up to them	Disempowered, Demoralized, Disenfranchised.¹	Dumped on their heads by uncaring, egopathic, egocentric bosses.

And yet, their supervisors still love to	PCD bosses seem so sincere when they	The employee would like to	In Nasty Bosses, Jay Carter says Don’t
Pat them on the back,	Protest that their decision was based on	Protest that the boss's reaction revealed an utter lack of Character and	Point out mistakes,
Confirm their status as a valued employee, and	Circumstances outside their Control but this response strikes the employee as very	Caring or Compassion Concerning the impact of the	Contradict your boss, or
Delegate more power and responsibility to them.	Disingenuous.	Decision which was so Devastating to the target.	Demonstrate what he or she is doing wrong.

Deviousness of the PCD Boss

Instead of sharing their feelings, PCD	A PCD "Hidden Agenda" is being	PCD Bosses are willing to	Devious PCD Bosses could be called
Patrons will repress their true feelings,	Pretentious with	Provoke a response to surreptitiously	Perfidious,
Control their anxieties, and	Clandestine maneuvering including	Create a Conflict or infraction so they can justify	Conniving, and
Discharge the unresolved feelings in inappropriate and hidden-agenda ways.	Deceptive cooperation and Devious scheming.	Dismissing a Disliked or Disfavored employee.	Deceitful.

PCD bosses will be Passive-Egopathic when they Conveniently Forget to Dutifully follow up your request for a raise.

PCDs want you to be a willing	The PCD supervisor has difficulty giving Hearty Approbation and	Jay Carter (2004) says avoid a "Chucky Boss." He may find your…
Participant in their	Praise and giving out A's and B's for effort. They'd much Prefer giving out	Plight amusing but does not have one ounce of empathy. He has a
Carefully Contrived	Cs (Caustic Criticisms) and	Con-Artist type of Charisma. When he is done with you he will
Drive towards success, power, and control	Ds (Demerits) to their employees for their Disappointing work. (Carnegie, 1938, p. 100)	Dump you in the "wasted" can (p. 9, paraphrased).

PCDs and Emotional and Social Intelligence

PCDs do not possess high Emotional Intelligence (EI.). You must be able to accurately (Fitness, 2001)	PCDs are very poor at doing these behaviors which make up Emotional Intelligence (Goleman, 1995). PCDs would rather not	Highly intelligent (but low EQ) male PCDs are	PCDs are all about social
Perceive your and others' emotions. You must be able to	Pay attention to their own true feelings but rather	Productive, but Predictably	Propriety until it comes time to be
Comprehend and understand your emotions, and you must be able to	Concentrate on concrete external realities, and	Cold, Critical, Condescending and	Caring and Cooperative and then rules of
Deal with, manage, and regulate your emotions (p. 102)	Disregard how other's feel when his/her vitriol spews forth.	Detached (Daniel Goleman, pp. 44, 45 in EI)	Deportment go right out the window.

Egopathic PCDs are greatly wanting in areas of interpersonal	PCD personalities with an overpowering agenda can be	PCD's cruel and self-centered behavior is Untenable, Im-	However, Good people can display PCD traits, too, when they succumb to the
Proprieties, such as being	Persistent, Pushy,	Proper, Un-	Pressures, the
Cordial, Considerate and other prosocial	Coercive, and	Conscionable and In-	Constraints, and the
Desideratum	Dogmatic	Defensible	Demands of a stressful job

PCD Personality, Power, and Lack of Conscience

Dr. Wood is proposing the Rules of Interpersonal Conduct to help managers and supervisors be more

Ruthful in their behavioral choices.

It is very difficult for PCDs to share	PCDs have a great need to	PCDs want you to be a	Subclinical Antisocial PCDs feel they are completely innocent and
Power, engage in	Preserve their Power, Position, and Prestige so they (Horney, 1937)	Plaintiff, a	Perfectly justified in doing what they did. They refuse
Collaborative Conversations, or	Corral their Cronies and Cohorts into a Coalition to help them	Collaborator, a Co-conspirator and	Culpability and will stay in
Delegate power to others	Defend their turf, position, and power.	Devolve with them into unkind and Deleterious acts towards others	Denial and self-justification and Deflect all blame onto others.

These nefarious PCDs have a difficult time feeling	PCDs seem to be impervious to feeling	The PCD is not moved by the	The Three worst PCDs are
Personal responsibility, or feeling	Penitent and	Plaintive	5. Psychopathic Personality Disorder
Compunctious or remorseful	Contrite after Committing their cold,	Cries of his/her	4. Cruel Egopathic Personality Disorder (Wood, 2004) and
During nor after the Dirty Deed (Hans Peterson on 20/20)	Dastardly act.	Devastated victim	3. The Damaged, Disrespectful Interpersonal style (See The List of 1. thru 5.)

Personality Disorders are spread out over levels 4 and 5. The capacity to show remorse and change is the dividing factor for whether they are in level 3 or 4. Level 5 persons never have that capacity.

PCDism is not necessarily fit under the rubric of	PCDs can be triggered by circumstances in adulthood which	Egopaths are unable to relax. They are unconsciously hypervigilant in what they	The great expressionist
Psychopathology but it should be	Perpetuate the	Perceive to be a Perilous,	Painter, Picasso, showed himself to be
Considered, depending on the level of cruelty and disregard for the needs of the others, for the	Childhood absence of a secure attachment which leads to a	Calamitous, and	Consistently egocentric, Constantly thinking of only himself, and Cruelly
DSM-V using Dimension Description as an indicator of severity.	Devilish sort of acting out of the pain which the PCD is unable or unwilling to seek therapy for in order to heal.	Dangerous world.	Disregarding of the needs and feelings of those who worked for him and admired him.

PCDs and Relationships

PCDs seldom show an ability to be	PCDs have a hard time dealing with their	PCDs often lack the empathy to feel	PCDs love to make negative	PCDs love to make negative
Patient, Propitiate,	Peevish people, their	Pity and	Predictions about someone's Professional Possibilities,	Pronouncement about someone's Potential
Curious, Considerate, Conciliative, and	Complaints, their Conflicts, and their	Compassion, and an altruistic	Capabilities, and future	Career Success and
Deferent to the Dreams and needs of others	Disappointments and Dissatisfactions	Desire to show sympathy to others when they are hurting.	Development.	Destiny.

PCDs have little patience with those who are	They adopt an attitude and think these people are	PCDs love to make	At red flag moments, PCDs don’t realize the target person has a
Piteously slow,	Pathetic, Passive-aggressive,	Presuppositions and Presumptions, draw quick	Point of view, too. The PCD has difficulty becoming
Confused, or	Complacent,	Conclusions, make Conjectures, and make hasty	Curious enough to ask questions which can lead to
Dull and Disorganized	Dumb, Demented or even Disturbed	Deductions which cause a great Deal of pain and heartache to their victims.	Dissolution of the problem and Dissipating of the target's pain and Dissatisfaction

PCDs don’t realize the target person has	When it comes to strangers and new employees, PCDs are likely to	On the Big Five Personality Traits (Costa & McCrae) PCDs are low on
Personal needs. The PCD has difficulty becoming	Pass judgment on them,	Perviousness (openness to change and others' input); high on
Caring and Compassionate which can lead to healing of the	Characterize them as "mad, bad, stupid, and lazy, and	Conscientiousness; and high on
Deepest part of the person's Distraught psyche.	Deem them unworthy of their consideration, friendship and respect	Disagreeableness (the opposite of Agreeableness.)

PCD and Personality Disorders

The PCD designation is needed because there are so many people whose behavior does not meet DSM criteria for Personality Disorder and yet behave in a way that is outside the kind and caring range of human behavior.

PCD Personality traits are not yet clinically	A major PCD has a minor	PCDs are egoistic in that they are	Paranoid Personality Disorder PCD is
Pathological but are sub-	Personality/	Preoccupied with themselves	Plenty afraid and is in
Clinical, and non-	Character	Callous and	Constant hyper-
Diagnosable with the DSM-IV	Disorder	Disregarding towards others.	Defense mode.

Borderline PCD is not a full blown personality d/o but instead is a	Borderline male PCD’s devolve from being a	Anti-social PCDs are often	The PCD
Pale version of the intense Pertinacious, inflexible,	Pampering,	Profligate,	Passive-aggressive Personality is governed by
Chaotic,	Care-taking, need-gratifying suitor to a	Contumacious, and	Covert messages that the other is always more powerful which leaves the person
Dramatic and often Dominating Interpersonal style of a full-blown Borderline Personality.	Demonic, abusive spouse. (Belle et Bete, Cutts killer)	Disinclined to follow the mores of the day.	Disempowered at heart. (J. Hollis, 2007) (paraphrased, p. 79)

The traditional concept of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is being	But a PCD Narcissist is less pompous and more just relentlessly egocentric. They are	The Narcissistic-Borderline Combination PCD is	Toward the unfortunate soul who wanders into their purview, the Borderline PCD Person is
Pompous, Proud, Pretentious,	Persistently,	Presumptuous, overly	Petulant and irascible showing
Conceited, Cocky, and	Consistently, and	Confident, and	Constant Consternation and
Dilettantish	Devastatingly uninterested in your point of view, your needs, and your areas of interest.	Disrespectful.	Dismay for the target's looks and behavior.

The psychological tendency for PCDs in conflict: They think "When you say I am	The Paranoid Personality Disorder is known for his unswerving judgment of how others have harmed and betrayed him. He is	PCDs have less of what is called "paranoia" and mostly seem to have lost a	Passive-Aggressive was considered a useful diagnostic "grab-bag" of
Part of the Problem, I	Paranoid, Pertinacious,	Positive Perspective on the	Personality Disorders that served as a
Catastrophize and feel I am the whole problem and the Cause of everything bad. I Can't handle that so I begin to	Concrete, and overly	Common good in life and the	Clinically useful Catchall Category . Can PCD fulfill that role now?
Decompensate and go into a self-pity driven rage or attack.	Disturbed about how others are focused on his Demise.	Desire to make this place a better world by forgiving others' infractions and self-focus.	Damn right it can. (Kernberg, 1986)

The Compulsive PCDs

Compulsive PCDs, according to T. Millon, are prone to a (p. 222)	"Pedantic" means being	Traits for Compulsive PCDs, according to T. Millon, are (p. 224)	Prosocial behavior of Compulsive PCDs are (p. 225)
Pedantic sense of order,	Preoccupied with and too	Perseverance, Parsimony,	Polite, Punctual, and formal
Compulsive orderliness. Things beyond his own frontiers are felt to be	Conscientious about the Correct rules and	Cognitive and emotional Constriction, tend toward Conformity and they abhor	Capitulating to the rules of authorities above them and
Dangerous and “unclean”	Details of a situation.	Deviations from the routine	Deferring to them

But with their subordinates they are focused on their own	The Compulsive PCD's need to be	Obsessive-Compulsive Personality PCDs are	PCDs fall on an anger continuum from one extreme to the other. They go from being
Point of view, self-absorbed,	Punctual and Perfectionist are attempts to be in	Private,	Polite and Courteous like the
Crass, insensitive, inflexible, rigid,	Control of the potentially	Closed, Concealing and emotionally	Compulsive PCD to the overt bullying of the Antisocial PCD. It's the
Disapproving, and haughty	"Dangerous" and yet-to-be-secured workplace.	Distant (see below)	Dimension of Destructive manipulation and need for control and power that makes them stand out for who they are.

The Cruel Egocentric PCD Personality

Irritable PCDs fit most likely into the	Irritable PCDs have a	The Cruel Egocentric PCD engages in	Sadistic Character PCDs have compromised moral
Four bodily humors as the	Pugnacious,	Pathologizing (labeling others as "sick")	Principles, they lack a
Choleric (yellow bile; "pissed-off"),	Cantankerous, Caustic (2, 4, 5 on MMPI) Cranky, Crabby,	Character-assassinating (calling others "mad, bad, stupid, lazy or dangerous")	Conscience, and they are
Disagreeable Disposition	Dyspeptic Disposition	Demonizing (thinking of simple egocentric behavior as "horrible!")	Devoid of empathy for those who are Deeply wounded by their words and deeds.

In Public the PCD can Conceal who he really is.

The	PCDs who are in the	The PCD has the ability to	However, in
PCD has an amazing	Public eye are often the	Put on a false front and	Private these PCDs are
Capacity to Compartmentalize their	Critically acclaimed, highly Commended	Cover up their ego driven recriminations so they can remain	Critical, short-tempered, always Commenting on how the target has screwed up and
Devilish Deeds so they maintain their high self-esteem.	Darlings of society, the media, or the industry.	Disguised as a healthy and altruistic person (Creative Aggression)	Daring the target to do anything about it.

PCD: How they deal with your ideas

Of your ideas, PCDs tend to be	PCDs will	On a bad day, PCDs will	When PCDs are mad they have a tendency to
Particular,	Pontificate first and then listen to your ideas with	Pulverize,	Push you away
Contemptuous	Calculated interest only to Callously	Condemn, and	Cut you out and
Dismissive or Disapproving	Denigrate your ideas and Devalue their contribution	Demolish your ideas (and your soul)	Drag you down with them

PCDs do not understand why they internally feel so	Women PCDs, rather than being	They can be so	PCDs tend to be Ego….
Pressured,	Physically abusive, show their egopathy by being more	Petty,	…..pathic
Compelled, and	Cold and Callous in a Condescending way, in a	Critical, and	…..centric
Driven to behave in these cruel and egocentric ways	Disgusted manner.	Demeaning.	…..defensive

PCD Parents

PCD parents seem to lack understanding about how their behavior affects the	PCD parents tend to have a	PCD parents tend to have a	PCD Parents have a
Personological and	Punitive	Penchant for	Propensity for being
Characterological	Coercive and a soul-	Crushing their Children's	Cruel and
Development of their child	Damaging Demeanor	Dreams and Deterring them from self-actualization.	Destructive to the children's Daemons

PCD Sports Parents love to	(cont'd)	They seem to be clueless how this	PCD parents rob their kids of their
Pressure,	Perform,	Perturbs,	Passion in life, their
Cajole, and	Compete and	Chafes, Cankers,	Conscience to care, their
Dictate to their children that they will …(next box)	Defeat the competition	Dispirits, and Discourages their children	Drive to be all that they can be, and the Vision to make it all happen

PCD Parents and others seem to think Good	The more a parent chooses to be PCD, the more	PCD Parenting robs the child of his or her personal moral	The Child may also be robbed of his or her life moral
Parenting	Parental love and	Purpose,	Positive attitude, his or her moral
Consists of Catching their Children Committing a Crime and Castigating them with harsh	Closeness suffers and emotional	Convictions, and	Compass, and positive
Discipline Designed to ensure that they live in fear of the mighty hand of God.	Distance is created.	Dedication.	Directionality.

The PCD Parent is so out of touch with their wounded self that the	The PCD Parents	PCD Parents have a way of
Punishment is seldom	Project their Pain on to the	Perpetuating the multigenerational
Commensurate with the Crime. It is usually more harsh and	Child as a way of Coping with the unresolved pain from their	Cycle of abuse which leads to the
Designed to be "therapeutic" or at least mollifying for the Damaged Parent.	Distant Past.	Dysfunctionality of families

The worst PCD Parents are the least likely to have the ability to change their	It is unbelievably	The classes would Present a Curriculum of
Parenting Style and benefit from Parenting classes because they lack the mental and emotional	Primitive that America, in 2008, does not Provide Parenting and SEL*	Parenting skills, Relationships skills, Personality awareness, and
Capacity to Comprehend and	Classes so every high school student Can	Child
Digest the parenting information that is given in a Parenting Class.	Development their skills and understanding.	Development knowledge.

PCD Parent Communication Style

PCD Parents who	PCD Communication tends to use	PCD family communications: They are not	Trying to understand a disorganized PCD's communication can be
Pick on and Poke fun at their	Prescribing,	Perspicuous; instead they are	Perplexing,
Children don't realize they are	Commanding, Threatening, and	Convoluted, Confused,	Confounding, and
Diminishing their children's sense of self and self-esteem.	Demanding. They don't use the "Describe-what-you-see" technique to win cooperation.	Disjointed, and Disorganized	Discombobulating to the poor child.

Mystification is committed by PCD Parents. It is the	They will then	The effects of egopathic mystification: the children are left feeling
Process of invalidating what the	Pawn off accountability and refuse to	Poorly Perceived by the Parents,
Child says about what they feel or think and then	Countenance Constructive Criticism but instead will	Confused,
Discounting the importance of their pleas for understanding.	Deflect all the blame to their children's choices and problematic thinking. (R.D.Laing, 1965)	Distraught and Disconsolate. Decompensation is the last stage of mystification.

A quick reference definition of PCD parenting of adult children might be the	Some PCD parents are so demanding of obedience that when they fail to get it, the need for absolute control becomes so	The Power that is afforded the PCD head of the family can be so destructive and yet the adult children continue to respect and protect the	After a lot of PCD bullying and unfair
Pushing	Pervasive that they may	Patriarch of the family who is so	Pressure, the target will
Constantly the self-Centered	Carry out this malignant need even to	Controlling because it would be so unthinkable to Confront the	Consent to almost anything in order to
Desires, Dreams, Decisions of the parent	Disowning their own child.	Domineering bastard.	Disentangle from the PCD abusive maligning.

Children of PCD Parents

Children of Borderline PCD Parents are often	Children of Violent PCD parents often feel	Children of PCD Parents often find, to stay sane, they have to	In a book entitled, A Child Called "It," a man named
Perplexed and	Powerless,	Prostrate themselves, (Psychologically speaking)	Pelzer told of the abuse of his PCD, egopathic mother during his
Confused with	Confused, and	Capitulate to their demands, and	Childhood before he became A Man Named
Disorganized interpersonal attachment style (Berger, 2008)	Dysthymic or Dysphoric (sad, guilty, angry, alone) (D. Wexler, 1998)	Deny their own sense of propriety and right to make the parents happy.	Dave, a book about his journey to overcome his childhood abuse (Pelzer, 1995, 1999).

Battered children like "Dave" often struggled to	In Parenting literature	Any child can avoid developing Axis I mental illness if they have enough
Predict what will happen next so they can escape the	"Punishment" is usually referred to as	Pleasant, healthy experiences which
Consequences of their parent's	"Consequences" to	Counterbalance the TRAUNCIL. They Can then avoid this personality
Destructive rages.	Discourage the use of harsh "punishment" by PCDs.	Disability called "egopathy."

The more PCD parents shame their children, the more their healthy	Mensorium is lost. It is the ability to be organized, Act	PCD Parents who yell "stop crying!" to their children
Psychic energy is lost and	Purposively, think	Prevent the child from maintaining a normal
Clear-headed, deeply-felt Cathectance of their healthy	Clearly and Conscientiously, and be Goal-	Connection to their feelings which makes healthy, Cathartic Crying as an adult much more
Dreams and fantasies is Dissipated and their realization becomes all the more Distant and Difficult.	Directed	Difficult.

Adult Children of PCD	In PCD homes, the	Some poor dumb suckers suffer	Adolf Hitler got the One, Two Lethal Punch of bad parenting. His mother
Parents end up suffering with the Pain of	Parents' relationship has a great affect on the mental health of the	Pitifully because they were taught by their PCD Parents that Mental Health Professionals are quacks, medication is bogus, marital	Pampered and Indulged him with Permissive Parenting for the first 6 years of his life. Then his father Pummeled and
Cirrhosis of the Liver after years and years of	Children even if they are not directly involved in	Conflict is to dealt with on their own, and Depression and	Cruelly tried to Control and Corral him into abject obedience which Completely
Drinking too much to numb the pain and chase away the blues	Domestic Disputes (Berger, 2008, p. 514)	Disabilities are to be hidden from all eyes because to admit to them would be a sign of weakness.	Disregarded his Desire to become a painter so that he could express his creative side.

Trying to appease a Tyrannical PCD? Nothing will	Children of Abusive PCD Parents usually suffer from extremely	Children of PCD parents may turn out to be just like them or they may suffer from depression and/or mania. They may have a
Placate these PCDs short of the Children's Complete	Poor Ego Development which can lead to	Personality Disorder. They may display traits of Power, Control, and Directing (PCD) themselves. They may be
Compliance with and obedience to their Commands,	Criminal behavior. Are they	Compulsive in some way: drinking, living on the edge, starving themselves, using drugs. They may become
Demands and rules.	Destined to become Delinquents or Drug Dealers?	Depressed and go on to create their own Dysfunctional families

The children of PCDs are often robbed of their best	It is of	For immature PCD parents the glory and excitement of the
Providence: their good judgment and foresight in the management of affairs or resources; their best	Paramount importance that	Pregnancy is a far cry from the mundane
Character: the ability to make choices that consider others; and their best	Children get the love, structure, and attention they so richly	Constancy of having to parent a toddler and a growing Child all the way through years of
Destiny: to be happy and productive.	Deserve to avoid the Diminution of their creative talents and minds.	Development.

In 1956, the Innovators of the Family Therapy Movement*	No matter how hard you try, you will find yourself stuck in a PCD	Frieda Fromm-Reichmann said a Schizophrenogenic (PCD) Mother (one who creates schizophrenia in their child) is	Read about the effects of PCD parenting in Peck & Havighurst's (1960): The
Published an article	Pickle. You are	Possessive,	Psychology of
Creating the Concept of the	Caught in his or her impossible	Cold, Rejecting,	Character
Double-bind; a powerful trigger of Schizoaffective Disorder in children.	Double-bind: you're Damned if you do and Damned if you don't.	Domineering, and Guilt-producing	Development

Effects on the Target Person

Egopathic actions and responses from a PCD can have	Repeated exposure to PCD behavior significantly affects the relationship with the target person. The Target	Repeated exposure to PCD damages the Self-esteem. They may feel they are a	This Chronic exposure to the wiles of egopathy can cast a
Pulverizing,	Person feels trapped between loving the person and hating the person. They feel	Pitiful excuse for a human being. They feel	Pall over the target Person's emotional life. All the qualities like love,
Catastrophic, and	Conflicted about their relationship. In the end it might even	Confused about their sense of self which most often leads to a	Caring, fun, and magic are stripped away leading into
Devastating effects on the target person.	Destroy their relationship with the PCD Person.	Decreased belief in the sanctity of one's Dreams	Deepest Depression.

The targets of PCD Perpetrators often resort to	Repeated exposure to PCD is similar to repeated exposure to a toxin. It is	It seems that this PCD Personality is a	Over time, the stress of dealing with PCD behaviors from a significant person can
Psychosomatic	Pathogenic which means a	Potent, Toxic,	Precipitate
Complaints which means transferring the pain of the heart to	Condition is Created in the target which would not have otherwise have	Caustic, and	Cortisol secretion which can lead to Chronic Coronary
Disorders in the body to avoid feeling and Dealing with the hurt emotions.	Developed due to the chronic maltreatment by the PCD overlord.	Deadly Disease and it is!	Distress, and Heart Disease

Decades of having to deal with or live with a PCD can be so toxic that it precipitates	According to AOL, dealing with the stress of PCD People can	Living with or working for a PCD Person can rob a man or woman of their Happiness,
Physical illnesses like Parkinson's disease,	Perpetuate feeling out of control and raise the	Pleasure in living, their ability to Play, their
Cancer, Strokes, and even, in extreme cases,	Catabolic hormones in our bodies. AOL health website suggests	Can-do attitude, Vitality, Joy, their Care-free feelings, their
Dementia and mental Debilitation. (research yet to be Done.)	Deep-breathing activities such as yoga, and meditation to counteract this.	Durability and Zest for life.

PCD and Transactional Analysis (TA)

PCDs, in TA parlance, are Undergirded by their	The Coalition is a combination of two ego states that get our PCD verbal output	PCDs with a contaminated "Adult" will boost their ego by showing	In order to get into his Adult ego state, a PCD must
Parent/Child	Percolating. The wounded	Prejudice, (Steiner)	Perform a self analysis. They need to
Coalition	Child asks the Parent to	Contemptuousness, and	Correct any faulty “if .. then” statements, and thereby
Disposition.	Do it's Dirty work/talking.	Derisiveness.	Decontaminate their Adult ego state

Psychodynamic Understanding

The Psychodynamic interpretation of PCD's behavior can be seen as the	Common PCD Ego Defenses of the (Egopathic personality)	A common ego defense for PCDs is seen when the	Aggression is understood and explicated in psychodynamic terms:
Process of Transference,	Projective Blaming; Prevarication	Person defends against anxiety by	Purposively
Countertransference and	Compartmentalizing Condensation Confabulation	Creating a world split into two dichotomies: the good and the bad. This is called	Creating pain and being
Defense mechanisms	Denial, Dissociation, Devaluation	Dichotic Thinking (splitting the world into halves.)	Determined to destroy the object (Kernberg, 1995)

PCD is a sign of:	PCD Personality Deficiencies spring from the	PCDs often don't have the slightest	If the Target
Primitive Ego	Primitive Ego (Hogan & Kaiser, 2005) which is	Propensity for benefiting from emotional	Person tries to
Contaminated Ego	Contrasted with the well-	Counseling and	Change the egopath, mostly they will be
Damaged Ego Diffused Ego	Developed or Differentiated ego	Depth Psychotherapy.	Doomed to Disappointment.

Thinking Styles

PCDs are much more likely to construe constructive creativity as pathology if it appears a bit too odd or eccentric

PCDs often lack an interest in or ability in being	PCDs seem to lack the ability to	PCDs tend to	Bipolar PCDs can have "psychotic features" like
Psychological-minded, a	Ponder their own	Palliate the effects of	Paranoid Thinking,
Common Characteristic of this	Consciousness and Contemplate their Character enough to Comprehend and accept the	Cognitive Dissonance with obdurate	Compulsive-Obsessive Thoughts, hallucinations, or
Durable and Rigid Personality Style.	Destructiveness of their peculiar interpersonal style.	Dichotic Thinking. ie. they will decide that their way is right and the other is wrong	Dissociative symptoms.

PCD Power People

Religious PCDs take the "fun" out of fundamentalism when they	PCDs become irritated, annoyed, and judgmental when their subjects refuse to be	Media talk show hosts are usually PCDs who are	Concerning politics, opinionated PCDs will tend to
Pontificate and Preach	Pliant, Persuaded,	Political Pundits who	Politicize and Proselytize, unfairly
Condemnation and	Cooperative, and	Caterwaul and Create a lot of	Criticize, and
Damnation to the congregation.	Disposed to their bidding.	Drama and Disturbance in the political and public arena.	Dichotomize the political scene.

Dictionary says a Dictator who gains	Egopathic leaders can become monsters like	Leaders through the years were good people when they were young but could not resist the corruption of having	Beware, Countrymen, angry PCDs are wont to go off on grand and stinging
Power by appealing to the People's Prejudices in a way that is	Pol Pot, Peter the Great,	Power so their Personality so they Capitulated and	Philippics, oratorical
Considered Dangerous is called a	Ceasar, and Count	Changed. They Couldn't resist becoming a PCD	Castigations, and critical
Demagogue.	Dracula.	Despot.	Diatribes.

PCD Power People are quick to	PCDs feel internal	PCDs don’t care what your	Open yourself up to a PCD and he will give you a
Pooh, pooh,	Pressure to give advice and even a	Personal experience is, they feel a drive to	Piece of his mind, he will tell you how the
Contranavigate, and	Compulsion to Coerce others in a certain	Construct your experience the way they	Cow ate the Cabbage, he will provide you with
Disqualify your Point of View (POV)	Direction.	Deem it should be Deciphered and Delineated	Directives on how you can better your life if you'll just Do what he says.

PCD and Couples, Control, and Violence

In shaky relationships PCDs with attachment issues can be	PCDs commit "intimate terrorism" when the husband punishes, isolates, and degrades his wife. It is much less	PCD husbands can often cross the line from being merely Pushy to being	The PCD Perpetrator is usually antisocial and violent in many ways,
Possessive, Paranoid,	Prevalent than	Physically abusive when they	Putting
Competitive and	Common Couple violence but far more	Cannot accept their need for Control is maldeveloped and	Children and relatives in
Distrusting with Dogged Determination to keep the spouse under their thumb.	Dangerous (Berger, 2008, p. 513)	Dangerous.	Danger. (M. P. Johnson, 2005)

Couples and Relationships

PCD spouses have a difficult time being	PCDs are brilliant and	John Gottman's: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; the 4 best	What starts out as harmless jocund interpersonal banter can escalate into
Pudent, (showing healthy shame) and	Pluperfect at the	Predictors of Divorce were shown to be	Picayunish Patter which
Contrite but no difficulty at all	Counterattack and the Clever Caustic Comeback (CCC) as a way of a	Criticism, Contempt (or	Can lead to more Caustic Comments, and then verbal Conflict, which leads to the
Defending what they have Done.	Defending themselves against what they perceive as an attack.	Disgust), Defensiveness (or Denial,) and Stonewalling.	Deterioration of what was once a beautiful relationship and then Divorce.

PCD spouses often come across as	John Gottman says (2002) PCDs often engage in a destructive	PCD spouses have a difficult time showing genuine	Having one member of a couple be a PCD Personality is
Parental,	Pattern of interaction: when one insists and the other withdraws. It's	Politeness,	Predictive of
Condescending, Controlling and	Consistently Characteristic of ailing marriages (p. 22) and is called the	Compromise, and	Couple Conflict and increased likelihood of
Demanding	Demand/withdrawal interactional style	Deference when in a conflict.	Divorce (research yet to be done to prove this.)

Origins, Causes, and Characteristics

Personality Control Dysfunction (PCD) comes from	The PCD Personality develops from a	PCD parents seem not to realize that the household with	Alice Miller (1979) explains the
Poor	Pernicious	Pandemonium,	Problems and
Childhood Ego	Confluence of	Chaos, and	Consequences growing up
Development (PED)	Deleterious events in the Developing years of childhood.	Disorganization leaves a Child's spirit and ego in Disarray.	Disconnected from the true self.*

Children of PCD Parents feel overly	PCD Parents who allow a home full of multiple	Divorced PCD Parents who allow
Penalized,	Partners, unconcealed sex, and	Pandemonium, Parties, and
Chastised, and	Crazy goings on greatly	Chaotic goings on are greatly
Demonized by overzealous, unhealthy, acting-out PCD parents.	Damage the Child's sense of personal order and solid sense of self.	Deleterious to the formation of a healthy sense of personal structure that we call a "healthy ego."

Family members have a drive to support the powerful PCD "Papa Grande" in the family by	All the while, this empowered Paterfamilias demands	Dictionary says, A hegemonic PCD has
Protecting him,	Pecuniary	"Preponderant influence,
Coddling him,	Control over his	Control, and
Defending him and doing nothing that might Disturb his fragile hold on his equanimity.	Descendents	Domination" over others (paraphrased)

PCDs and their Lack of Healthy Prosocial Altruism

Eron and Lund say PCDs have a difficult time with respecting a person’s	PCD’s have trouble understanding how	In a moment of conflict, PCDs have a hard time recognizing that other people have	PCDs tend to cruelly make attributional errors about a person's disabilities by judging that they
"Preferred view" and being	Problematic views of self and others are	Personal points of view,	Purposely
Confident that people are Capable and Competent, and	Constructed and the need to find a way to effect their	Constructions of their own, and the right to	Choose to retain their
Desirous to be their best. Narrative Solutions in Brief Therapy, p. 98)	Deconstruction (p. 56).	Disagree with them.	Disabilities and Deficiencies instead of understanding the Developmental nature of them.

PCDs are often	Healing can happen if the PCD will face his	If the reader feels that this PCD Personality	How can this
Perched Precariously atop a Prideful Pedestal	Past, Psychotherapeutically	Paradigm seems Perilously close to Poppycock, then it's	Psychotherapist named
Corrupted with a	Construct a new one, and	Conceivable that the reader has never been	Cedric express so many Cogent Concepts using just these
Devil-may-care attitude towards others' needs before a Downfall	Deal with his Demons. (Schwartz, 1997)	Dealt the Disorienting knock-out punch that inspired this concept. May your good luck hold up.	Devilishly Clever mnemonics?

The PCD Personality develops during the long	This process, if bungled, creates a troublesome	In Biblical terms, toxic shame is like a bucket of burning	Fortunately, as PCD persons age, they become less and less
Process of	Personality which runs	Painful	Preposterous, and this maleficent
Childhood personality	Counter to the need in all of us to be treated with fairness and Consideration and	Coals which are	Character
Development	Dignity.	Dumped on their heads.	Diminishes and goes into Deceleration.

PCD and the Movies

In the movie "The Golden Compass" the PCD adults had an evil	Clark Gable's	Humphrey Bogart's PCD
Plan to	Purturbable PCD	Paranoid-Personality-Disordered
Cut away the Children's precious	Character in "Gone with the Wind"	Character in "The Caine Mutiny"
Daemons leaving them relatively soulless, just like themselves.	Didn't give a Damn.	Devolved into Derangement in the end.

In Conclusion

There are many persons who exhibit problematic behavior, but the behaviors are not severe enough for the person to be diagnosed with a DSM-IVTR Personality Disorder. And yet these people's personality creates significant problems in their relationships with spouses, children, employees, or students. They deserve a name for their behavior and it is, in a word, PCD.

^{1Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. p. 150.}

*trauncil: trauma, rejection, abuse, unloving acts, neglect, chaos, indulgence, loss, plus controlling-over parenting or permissive parenting, too.

*Social Emotional Learning (29)

*Listening, Understanding, Validating (LUV)

*Bateson, Jackson, Haley, & Weakland (1956).

*Egopathy: Being willing to move against someone aggressively in order to achieve a very egocentric, self-serving goal fueled by unresolved develpmental issues from the past.

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