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Histrionic Personality | Our Psychodynamic Deep Dive | Ep 62

🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) explore the complex psychological and societal factors contributing to histrionic personality disorder, focusing on gender dynamics, childhood development, and cultural influences. We specifically explore the histrionic’s fear of overstimulation internally; how they seek out professions that have a stage; and how they view the self and their own gender as defective. We look at their defense mechanisms in depth, including: repression, conversion, sexualization, acting out, regression, and dissociation. We end the episode by positing the new wave of gender and sexual fluidity and non-conformity may be a new expression of the histrionic character. 

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Histrionic and Gender Dynamics
02:00 How Does Histrionic Personality Start?
02:40 Histrionics as Creative Types
03:41 Main Emotions of Guilt, Shame, Anxiety
04:08 Histrionics Have Strong Oral Appetites
05:19 Oedipal Stage’s Impact on Histrionic Development
05:45 Freud’s “Male Anatomy Envy” = “P-envy”
06:47 Why Hysteria Came Back in DSM I (1952)
08:07 Sense of Self: Fearful, Inferior, Defective 
08:19 Histrionic vs Narcissistic Personality 
09:15 Enmeshment & Rescuing Dynamics 
10:21 Emotional Expressiveness in Histrionics
12:37 Histrionic: The Game of Pretend 
13:16 Histrionic Core Beliefs
14:13 Family Dynamics Contributing to Histrionic
15:45 The Histrionic Conflict With Sex and Culture
16:39 Exhibitionism Resolves the Conflict 
17:29 Conflict About the Opposite Sex
18:46 Defense Mechanisms in Histrionic:
      19:08 Repression
      20:20 Conversion & “Glove Paralysis” Example
      22:24 Sexualization
      23:11 Acting Out 
      24:13 Regression
      25:16 Dissociation
27:40 Our Thoughts 
      27:51 Empathy for the Histrionic’s Inner Child
      28:45 Histrionic’s Male Counterpart: Antisocial?
      29:10 Doc Bok’s Hypothesis About Gender & Sexuality Expression Today
      31:43 Is the New Histrionic Rejecting Binary Gender and Sex?
      33:27 Histrionic in Sexual Minorities
      34:29 Society Creates Histrionic Characters
      35:04 Evolution of Psychodynamic View of Histrionic

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Histrionic Personality Disorder | The 8 DSM Criteria | Ep. 61

🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) explore the 8 criteria of histrionic personality disorder in the DSM. We discuss their tendency to engage in attention-seeking and seductive behaviors, coming across as emotionally shallow. Histrionic personalities also focus heavily on their appearance and use fluffy, impressionistic  speech. Others perceive them as dramatic and suggestible - easily believing what others say regardless of the facts. They also tend to overestimate their connections to others, believing relationships are deeper than they actually are.  

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Histrionic Personality Disorder
00:39 DSM I (1952) Histrionic Criteria
01:12 DSM II (1968) Histrionic Criteria
01:33 DSM III (1980) Histrionic Criteria
02:21 DSM III-R (1987) Histrionic Criteria
03:22 DSM IV (1994) Histrionic Criteria
03:35 DSM 5-TR Criteria Introduction
04:17 Criterion 1: Attention Seeking
05:27 Criterion 2: Seductive & Provocative Behavior
06:16 Criterion 3: Shifting & Shallow Affect
07:54 Criterion 4: Draws Attention Using Appearance
09:05 Criterion 5: Fluffy, Impressionistic Speech
09:59 Criterion 6: Dramatic & Theatrical
11:34 Criterion 7: Suggestibility
13:27 Criterion 8: Connection Overestimation 
14:34 Lower Interpersonal Impairment
16:20 Our Thoughts
21:05 Summary & Ending

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Podcast Episode Referenced: Hysteria, Histrionic, & the Demonization of Women | Ep. 60 : https://youtu.be/3KkVWJ4um-8

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Hysteria, Histrionic, & the Demonization of Women | Ep. 60

🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) discuss the horrible and inhumane history of hysteria in medicine by investigating how Dr. Jean Martin Charcot used the Salpetriere Hospital in France as a “Museum of Living Pathology” to showcase his hypnotic and showman skills over hysterical women. We look at Freud’s contribution to hysteria and the oppressive, patriarchal society of the 1880s that led to these unexplained symptoms in women. We continue the discussion by walking through the DSM’s hysteria to histrionic personality evolution before sharing our own thoughts and opinions about this condition’s stigmatized name and the maltreatment of women in medicine throughout history. 

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction & History of Hysteria
01:39 Hysteria as a Medical Condition (Charcot)
04:00 Could Men Have Hysteria?
04:33 Women & Society in 1880
06:14 Charcot Treats Hysterics at Salpetriere Hospital
06:51 Dermagraphism Defined
07:27 Charcot’s “Museum of Living Pathology”
09:25 Freud’s Contribution to Hysteria
11:58 Was Freud Hysterical?
14:47 The Societal Context for Hysteria
16:02 The Disappearance of Hysteria in the 1900s
        16:46 WW I’s Impact on Hysteria
        17:37 Advances in Medicine and Neuroscience
18:08 Hysteria Makes a Comeback in the DSM I in 1952!
20:04 DSM I (1952): Hysteria as Symptoms without Medical Basis
20:16 DSM II (1968) Hysterical Neurosis 
20:34 Conversion Type
21:19 Dissociative Type
21:55 DSM II (1968) Hysterical Personality
23:24 Hysterical Personality vs Symptoms
23:47 DSM III Forward: Somaticization, Dissociation, Histrionic, & Borderline Personality
24:40 Our Thoughts
        25:24 Is Antisocial the Masculine Histrionic Counterpart? 
        27:55 Did Freud & Charcot Know More Than They Let On? 
29:40 Conclusion

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Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder vs Schizoid Personality | Ep. 59

🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) unpack the nuanced differences and overlaps between obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and schizoid personality disorder(SzPD). We investigate each personality’s core drives, emotional experiences, and defense mechanisms, using a psychodynamic lens to capture these very different (yet similar) personalities. 

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Chapters
00:00 Intro & Definitions
        01:27 OCPD Defined
        02:20 Schizoid Defined (DSM)
        02:48 Schizoid Defined (Psychodynamic)
03:10 OCPD vs Antisocial
04:04 OCPD vs Narcissism
04:52 OCPD vs Schizoid (DSM)
05:40 OCPD vs Schizoid (Psychodynamic)
05:54 OCPD vs Schizoid (Nancy McWilliams)
        06:52 Emotionality & Flatness
        07:55 Therapeutic Approach
09:52 Differing Inner Needs (PDM)
        10:06 OCPD Child: Orderly, Aggressive, Irritable
        10:25 Schizoid Child: Sensitive, Shy, Overstimulated
        11:02 Emotions in OCPD: Anger, Guilt, Anxiety, Shame, Fear
        11:32 Emotions in Schizoid: Emotional Pain, Overstimulation
        12:10 Defense Mechanisms in OCPD
        13:03 Defense Mechanisms in Schizoid
13:57 Maladaptive Beliefs (PDM)
        14:12 OCPD: Feelings Are Dangerous
        14:25 Schizoid: Dependency & Love Are Dangerous
        15:16 OCPD: Others Are Less Precise
        16:01 Schizoid: Others Are Impinging and Dangerous
16:44 Internal Conflicts (PDM)
        16:51 OCPD: To Comply or Defy
        17:13 Schizoid: Fearing Yet Yearning for Closeness
17:29 Are Schizoids Afraid?
17:45 Millon’s OC-Schizoid Mixed Subtypes
        18:02 Affectless Schizoid
        20:53 Parsimonious Constricted Compulsive
23:23 Our Thoughts
        24:10 Enneagram 5 & Schizoid
        24:38 Enneagram 1 & OCPD
        24:54 Enneagram 6 & OCPD
        25:54 Is OCPD a Core Personality? 
27:18 Problems with Therapy & Self-Discovery in OCPD
28:39 Summary & Closing
 

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The 6 Obsessive Compulsive Personality Subtypes | Ep. 58

🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) unpack the 6 subtypes of OCPD according to Dr. Theodore Millon. At the mild level, we explore the Conscientiously Reliable (Dependent Features) and the Perfectionistically Reliable, while at the Moderate level, we look at Bureaucratically Constricted (Narcissistic Features) and the Parsimoniously Constricted (Schizoid, Avoidant Features) . We conclude by discussing the more severe subtypes like Puritanical Compulsive (Paranoid Features) and the Bedeviled Compulsive (Negativistic) before sharing our thoughts and experiences in clinical practice.  

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Chapters
00:00 Intro & Definition of OCPD
01:34 When Perfectionism is Valuable
03:17 Compulsive Overlaps with All Personalities
06:13 Intro to Millon’s Personality Theory
06:27 The Mild Obsessive Compulsive Personality
      07:31 Conscientiously Reliable
      10:17 Perfectionistically Reliable
12:12 Our Personal and Clinical Experience 
14:16 Comparing & Contrasting Mild Obsessive Compulsive Subtypes
15:15 The Moderate Obsessive Compulsive Personality
      16:33 The Bureaucratically Constricted 
      19:31 Parsimoniously Constricted 
21:00 Millon’s Case Named Jane
22:38 The Severe Obsessive Compulsive Personality
      23:15 Puritanical Compulsive
      27:27 Bedeviled Compulsive
31:28 Comparing & Contrasting the 3 Severity Levels
32:28 Summary & Ending

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