From: "TipToe through the Keyboard" Subject: FILLER: What's Missing In This Picture? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:51:17 EDT From http://www1.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/persontypes.html by John Suler, Ph.D. - Rider University May 1996 - copyright notice In a piece concerning the possibility of looking at personality types and how they interact on the network (in cyberspace?), Dr. Suler writes: > Nancy McWilliams' book Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (Guilford Press, >1994) is probably one of the best, if not THE best book around that >summarizes and integrates the various psychoanalytic concepts about >major personality types. For each of these types, McWilliams explores >the characteristic affects, temperment, developmental organization, >defenses, adaptive processes, object relations, and >transference/countertransference phenomena. The personality styles >discussed are: > psychopathic (antisocial) > narcissistic > schizoid > paranoid > depressive and manic > masochistic (self-defeating) > obsessive and compulsive > hysterical (histrionic) > dissociative > One highly productive area of research would be to explore how >these personality types behave online, how they subjectively >experience cyberspace, how they shape the online experience for >others, and the pathological as well as potentially salutary aspects >of their online activities. I find it somewhat...problematic?...anyway, not really clear that there is the possibility of a healthy personality in this little list of personality types. Or is that not a possibility in the psychological framework? Someone must have looked at "normal" people, right? Odd... tink