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The interplay between antisocial and obsessive‐compulsive personality characteristics in cult‐like religious groups: A psychodynamic decoding of the DSM‐5

F. Rahmani,Azad Hemmati,Shuki J. Cohen,J. Meloy

Published 2019 in International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

ABSTRACT

Correspondence Azad Hemmati, Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran. Email: A.hemmati@uok.ac.ir Abstract The antisocial and violent behaviors of cult-like religious groups (CRGs) and the maladaptive social consequences of their activities suggest clinical or character pathology and invite diagnostic and dynamic formulations of their members' personalities. The current study utilized secondary reports in the commercial media about CRG members, combined with the lived experience method of two of the authors. The resulting core characteristics of CRG members were then classified following the alternative DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders. The overall clinical picture is then discussed in terms of the shared psychodynamic sources that undergird the behaviors of the antisocial-obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. By tracing the personality characteristics into their unconscious sadomasochistic conflicts, these insights shed light on the paradoxical frequent co-occurrence of antisocial and obsessive-compulsive characteristics among extremists, in contrast to the patient population at large.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Venue

    International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

  • Publication date

    2019-12-01

  • Fields of study

    Psychology

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1002/aps.1634
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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