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Join me, as I dive into Millon’s 6 antisocial subtypes - a vastly misunderstood personality that is self-focused, manipulative, and against society…sometimes criminals, but oftentimes blending successfully into the world.

The DSM only covers a small portion of what antisocial personalities are composed of, ignoring the inner workings and focusing on exterior behaviors. Join me, as I take a peek inside the antisocial personality, pulling from psychoanalytic theories.

I must confess feeling overwhelmed by the amount of confusing information related to Antisocial Personality Disorder. Join me as I dive into some questions about the inner world of the antisocial personality, when to consider antisocial personality to be in disordered territory, and the overlap of morality and psychology.

Antisocial personality disorder has a long history of social condemnation, and the DSM seems to reflect that…but is it describing a pattern of behaviors? Or is it adequately describing an actual personality? Let’s take a look at the current criteria for antisocial personality disorder in the DSM-5-TR.

Avoidant Personality Disorder involves wanting to be close to others but fearing rejection, so they can avoid being social. How does this impact their attachment? Are those with Avoidant Personality Disorder even avoidantly attached? Let’s dive into attachment and parse it out!

Join me, as I dive into Millon’s 6 avoidant subtypes - a controversial personality that is hypersensitive, fearful, and (you guessed it!) avoidant of others.

Avoidant Personality Disorder is a pretty new personality disorder, being coined in the 1960s. There’s still controversy surrounding its existence in the DSM…so let’s look at the research and explore whether or not the DSM got it wrong!

Avoidant personality disorder is relatively new (‘80s) and is becoming more common, but it can be pretty complicated to understand. It’s characterized by fear of rejection and feelings of inadequacy - a difficult, lonely place to be. Join me as I explore what the DSM-5-TR says about avoidant personality disorder.

At the borderline level of organization, there are some personalities that are falling apart: Schizotypal, Borderline, and Paranoid. Millon calls them “structurally defective”…but what does that even mean? Here I take a look at these melting personalities.

Historically, we used to have two categories for psychological patients to fall in: neurotic or psychotic. But that wasn’t enough (surprise!) because there were individuals who didn’t fall into either category. Alas, the borderline state of being was coined! Learn more about these three categories of personality functioning.