Obsession is known as an old disease that has been known since history. Obsession was defined by Esquriol as a symptom of melancholic. Shapiro, a psychoanalyst, stated that he needed to develop his own concepts because he was not satisfied with psychoanalytic theories regarding personality disorders. Although he defined the structure and characteristics of a style he called "neurotic styles", he emphasized that it can be thought of as a pattern in which many syndromes and defense mechanisms in the person's general thought system crystallize. The first of these; It means that the thought is solid, clear and sharply focused. According to Shapiro, obsessive individuals have a constantly attentive and intensely focused attention due to this characteristic; For this reason, they are likely to be successful in technical and detailed work. But they are easily distracted and interrupted by new information or external stimuli. The second feature that Shapiro emphasizes is the impairment in the obsessive-compulsive person's sense of independence. The last feature is that obsessive-compulsive people have lost their sense of reality or have blaming feelings about the world. Obsessive means thought and compulsive means impulse. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is characterized by excessive rumination on rules, orderliness, and a sense of control. These people experience extreme anxiety if there is a possibility that they may not have control over something, and therefore they prefer to escape from such situations. Control is important to them, and when they cannot achieve it, they feel anger. It will turn bad deeds into good ones by preventing situations such as over-controlled states, substance addiction, promiscuous sexual intercourse, and economic irresponsibility. Since they are very sensitive and determined about business success, they are very likely to be successful. Situations such as problematic behavior, perfectionism, and excessive attention to details make their daily lives very difficult and cause them to spend a lot of time and energy while doing their jobs. Organize and schedule with details, rules, lists, and so much so that you forget whatever the task is. They deal with behavioral tasks such as machining. These people feel uncomfortable when faced with innovations and situations that require flexibility. Although they are very committed to cultural norms, they have a stubborn personality structure. They obey the rules and expect them to comply with the rules fully.
Their rule-making and detail-oriented behavior makes the employees under their management, in their family relationships and business life, bored with their lives, so to speak. In his mind, they have problems in tolerating delusions neither in themselves nor in others. They do not want to work with others unless they think and act exactly like them, and they get angry if they have to. They constantly check what they do to prevent them from making mistakes. They experience conflict in making decisions because they constantly try to weigh the positive and negative aspects of events. They keep their emotions in the background and often prioritize logic. They develop a feeling of anger towards people who do not comply with their logic, or they have problems communicating with them. They express that they cannot enjoy themselves when they enter fun environments. In general, they are tough, stubborn and stingy people.
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