Ep 57: OCPD: Secrets Inside the Psyche
🎬In this episode of the Personality Couch Podcast, we (licensed clinical 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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Additional Podcast References
- Ekleberry, S. C. (2009). Cluster C: Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and substance use disorders. In Integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders: Personality disorders and addiction. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203843710
- Millon, T. (1981). Disorders of personality: DSM-III, Axis II (1st ed.). Wiley.
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
- 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
- 28:32 Summary & Conclusion