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The phrase '''disturbed character''' refers to a variety of serious anti-social, dysfunctional, or psychopathic personality defects.  Common speech and folklore are filled with many other terms for such people: neurotic, psychotic, crazy, nuts, wacky, and many more.  There are subtle and not-so-subtle differences in meaning among these terms.

'''Disturbed character''' is a [[personality]] type applied to people who are unencumbered by qualms of conscience and who passionately pursue their personal goals with indifference to - and often at expense of - the rights and needs of others, and cause all sorts of problems for others and society at large. Character-disordered personalities lack self-restraint when it comes to acting upon their primal urges. They have too little conscience or in extreme case no conscience at all. They typically resist making concessions to societal demands, may have some antisocial tendencies and have diminished capacities for experiencing genuine shame or guilt.

 

Erroneous thinking patterns and attitudes underlie dysfunctional behaviors they display. These problematic behavior patterns may be habitual and automatic, but they also are conscious and deliberate.  

Such people are often unencumbered by qualms of conscience and passionately pursue their personal goals with indifference to - and often at expense of - the rights and needs of others, and cause all sorts of problems for others and society at large. Character-disordered personalities lack self-restraint when it comes to acting upon their primal urges. They have too little conscience or in extreme case no conscience at all. They typically resist making concessions to societal demands, may have some antisocial tendencies, and may have diminished capacities for experiencing genuine shame or guilt.

Erroneous thinking patterns and attitudes underlie dysfunctional behaviors they display. These problematic behavior patterns may be habitual and automatic, but they may also be conscious and deliberate.  

These distorted characters resist changing their attitudes and core beliefs despite having plenty of insight and awareness. What they need and can benefit from are:

These distorted characters resist changing their attitudes and core beliefs despite having plenty of insight and awareness. What they need and can benefit from are:

*[[Boundaries_(Psychology)|limits]] placed on their behavior from external sources

*[[Boundaries_(Psychology)|limits]]

*confrontation, where necessary

*confrontation

*and most especially [[ABC_Theory_of_Emotion#The_Extended_model|correction]].

*and most especially [[ABC_Theory_of_Emotion#The_Extended_model|correction]].

:Cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approaches are the most appropriate in this regard.       

:Cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approaches are the most appropriate in this regard.       

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==Brief Summary of Problematic Patterns of Thinking of Disturbed Characters<ref name="Simon"/>==

==Brief Summary of Problematic Patterns of Thinking of Disturbed Characters<ref name="Simon"/>==

==Examples==

==Examples==

===Science===

===Science===

In his historical lecture at Sorbonne University in 1864, [[Louis Pasteur]] denounced the doctrine of [[spontaneous generation]], supported by [[evolutionist]]s of his day, as error.<ref>{{cite web

 

In his historical lecture at Sorbonne University in 1864, [[Louis Pasteur]] denounced the doctrine of [[spontaneous generation]], supported by many scientists of his day, as error. Georges Clemenceau was among those who, instead of accepting the new [[scientific discovery|scientific discoveries]] by Pasteur, strongly opposed Pasteur and never reconciled with him.  He became Pasteur's fierce opponent. For twenty years Clemenceau waited for an opportunity to thwart Pasteur and his methods. What was at stake here was the very future of Pasteur's work on vaccines. In 1886 Clemenceau joined Pasteur's adversaries, who were trying to discredit his method of antirabies vaccination whenever a death of patient occurred, and who were ready to unleash hostile campaigns at every opportunity.  The French press, and the scientific press in particular, facilitated this by their tendency to look for scandal wherever they could, and by the important position they had gained in society since the first half of the nineteenth century. Pasteur however had no doubts about the effectiveness of his vaccine, and he made sure to respond to every one of these hostile articles based on manipulative, aggressive and false accusations, whether in the general press or in specialized journals, defending his findings and his conclusions.  Instead of using underhand means, Pasteur showed science in action, personifying the march of progress and at the same time casting his aggressive adversaries, along with other archaic opponents of his method, "into the shadowy realm of the wicked".<ref name="Debr%25C3%25A9">{{cite book |title=Louis Pasteur|author=Patrice Debré|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|place=Baltimore and London|year=1998|pages=454-456|isbn=978-0801-865299|url=/books?id=RzOcl-FLw30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=ouis+Pasteur+Patrice+Debr%C3%A9&hl=en&sa=X&ei=R6mwUfe1Cuqw4QSS64GYAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=analogy&f=false|quote=Pasteur...went up to ... offer his criticism:...Analogy cannot serve as proof.}}</ref>

|accessdate= December 17, 2013}}</ref> From that time on, Georges Clemenceau was among those who became Pasteur's fierce opponents, holding his [[scientific discovery|scientific discoveries]] in disdain.<ref name="Debré"/> For twenty years the future "Tiger"<ref>{{cite book

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== References ==

== References ==