Ep 57: OCPD: Secrets Inside the Psyche

psychologists Doc Bok and Doc Fish) explore the inner conflict in those with OCPD: to comply or to defy. We look at defense mechanisms and early attachment (and even potty training!) that drives their fixated behavior. 

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Chapters
00:00 Intro & Definition of OCPD
02:47 Obsessive vs Compulsive Defined
04:04 OCPD vs OCD: Ego-syntonic vs ego-dystonic
05:29 The Internal Dysfunction in OCPD
05:58 The Role of Potty Training in Developing OCPD
08:31 Why is Potty Training Connected with Personality? 
10:38 The Central Conflict of Defying or Complying
14:16 Defense Mechanisms in OCPD
      14:20 Reaction Formation Defined
      15:29 Isolation of Affect
      16:21 Emotional Exceptions: Righteous Anger & Shame
18:21 OCPD vs Schizoid 
19:36 OCPD vs Psychosis
20:26 Compulsive Behavior of Undoing
20:53 When Compulsive Behavior is Pathological (and Not)
21:58 Compulsivity and Omnipotent Control 
22:46 Thoughts Behind Compulsive Behavior
24:28 Our Thoughts & Clinical Experience with OCPD
      25:23 The “Compulsive Personality Shell”
      26:31 Compulsive Flavors in Other Personalities
28:32 Summary & Conclusion

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