Anesthetic Personality Disorder - Is this Real?

[Mal12345]

Remember I included environmental influences. There is actually a direct cause and effect for every attitude and behavior, but the process is complex enough that it is difficult to ascertain all of the connections, especially when attempting to create categories.

While it's statistically true that "People who grow up in disrupted communities are more likely to lead disrupted lives as adults,"
The Materialist Fallacy - The New York Times
this is true only for groups of people and not for individuals. The complexity of the issue for individuals does not entail truth of the proposition that all attitudes and behaviors have distinct cause-and-effect connections to something environmental.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

While it's statistically true that "People who grow up in disrupted communities are more likely to lead disrupted lives as adults,"
The Materialist Fallacy - The New York Times
this is true only for groups of people and not for individuals. The complexity of the issue for individuals does not entail truth of the proposition that all attitudes and behaviors have distinct cause-and-effect connections to something environmental.

If they are actually calling it a disorder, then yes, there needs to be a diagnosable causality, don't you think?

 

[Mal12345]

If they are actually calling it a disorder, then yes, there needs to be a diagnosable causality, don't you think?

Psychiatrists are mostly opting to treat symptoms because

1. The diagnosis is considered a clinical one (i.e., there is no physical test such as a blood draw or other physiological test),

2. personality disorders are often quite intractable and insurance companies won't pay for long drawn-out treatment programs.