Clinical Assessment of Passive-Aggressive Personality

Interpersonal Dynamics in Personality and Personality Disorders

“…Shaw & Singer, ). Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig (, p. 346) described how, in cases outside of the military, initial desires for assertion are inhibited by ‘internal guilt or fear of external retaliation’ as ‘revealed by passive behavior’, which then give way to ‘guilt over dependent needs … leading to pseudoaggression, the behavioral counterpart being hostility’. While a sort of disaffected immaturity, roughly captured by the trait neuroticism, is clearly related to this kind of dynamic, the sequence could not be fully described by the term neuroticism alone because there are many other ways to be neurotic (e.g.…”

Interpersonal Dynamics in Personality and Personality Disorders

“…Shaw & Singer, ). Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig (, p. 346) described how, in cases outside of the military, initial desires for assertion are inhibited by ‘internal guilt or fear of external retaliation’ as ‘revealed by passive behavior’, which then give way to ‘guilt over dependent needs … leading to pseudoaggression, the behavioral counterpart being hostility’. While a sort of disaffected immaturity, roughly captured by the trait neuroticism, is clearly related to this kind of dynamic, the sequence could not be fully described by the term neuroticism alone because there are many other ways to be neurotic (e.g.…”

Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

“…This latter possibility is even more plausible since another group of researchers (Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig, 1954) described passive-aggressives as also having a conflict over feminine or passive impulses.…”

Interpersonal Dynamics in Personality and Personality Disorders

“…Shaw & Singer, ). Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig (, p. 346) described how, in cases outside of the military, initial desires for assertion are inhibited by ‘internal guilt or fear of external retaliation’ as ‘revealed by passive behavior’, which then give way to ‘guilt over dependent needs … leading to pseudoaggression, the behavioral counterpart being hostility’. While a sort of disaffected immaturity, roughly captured by the trait neuroticism, is clearly related to this kind of dynamic, the sequence could not be fully described by the term neuroticism alone because there are many other ways to be neurotic (e.g.…”

Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

“…This latter possibility is even more plausible since another group of researchers (Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig, 1954) described passive-aggressives as also having a conflict over feminine or passive impulses.…”

Interpersonal Dynamics in Personality and Personality Disorders

“…Shaw & Singer, ). Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig (, p. 346) described how, in cases outside of the military, initial desires for assertion are inhibited by ‘internal guilt or fear of external retaliation’ as ‘revealed by passive behavior’, which then give way to ‘guilt over dependent needs … leading to pseudoaggression, the behavioral counterpart being hostility’. While a sort of disaffected immaturity, roughly captured by the trait neuroticism, is clearly related to this kind of dynamic, the sequence could not be fully described by the term neuroticism alone because there are many other ways to be neurotic (e.g.…”

Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

“…This latter possibility is even more plausible since another group of researchers (Whitman, Trosman, and Koenig, 1954) described passive-aggressives as also having a conflict over feminine or passive impulses.…”