http://record.wustl.edu/archive/1997/10-09-97/5200.htmlCarol North, M.D., an associate professor of psychiatry and lead author of a paper in a recent issue of Comprehensive Psychiatry.---
It's a scene typical of daytime talk shows, America's showcase for dysfunctional living. The woman who fell for her jailed pen pal is talking at length with no obvious purpose. The host prods for details of the romance, but every answer is exasperatingly vague. "I just love him. He's so nice to me. I like to get his letters. I like to see the mailman."
Shows like this might not seem intellectually stimulating, but listen closely to those arguments, taunts and teary confessions and you might hear a perfect illustration of a breakthrough in psychiatry. School of Medicine researchers have discovered that people with certain psychiatric disorders also have distinctive language patterns that seem to reflect fundamental problems in thinking. The speakers use vague words and usually meander through conversations as if unable to focus on the main point.
These odd speech patterns, common on daytime talk shows, provide direct evidence that many people with antisocial personality disorder and somatization disorder (once called hysteria) also have imbalances in the brain.
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People with somatization disorder, almost always women, have never-ending complaints -- ranging from vomiting to paralysis --that can't be linked to physical illness. People with antisocial personality disorder might lie, steal and commit vandalism in childhood and progress to more serious offenses such as burglary and dealing drugs.
Both disorders also seem to encourage poor decisions in friends, mates and lifestyles. A woman who marries a known wife-beater may well have one of the disorders, North said.
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She trained the psychiatrists to keep score of different speech patterns, including vagueness and meandering sentences. A subject would earn "vague points" by saying something like "Clinton's a good guy. He does good things." If asked about the weather, a meanderer might mention his dog, his breakfast and his dentist before getting to the humidity.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WCV-4CR9004-59&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=951713842&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=c33aa8ad440790957c728b52be5d55baNonpsychotic thought disorder: Objective clinical identification of somatization and antisocial personality in language patterns
Abstract
This report describes a new method of using language patterns to identify somatization and antisocial personality (ASPD) disorders in clinical practice. A set of definitions describing characteristic speech patterns was developed to identify “nonpsychotic thought disorder” (NPTD). Speech patterns of subjects with somatization disorder and/or ASPD were compared with those of controls. Blind raters assessed audiotaped samples of speech obtained through openended interviews for instances of elements of NPTD. Women with somatization or ASPD had significantly more NPTD speech responses than controls, and women with both disorders showed the greatest amount. Antisocial men did not demonstrate more NPTD than controls, nor was somatization in men associated with NPTD. Clinical attention to speech patterns in patients may help alert clinicians to these disorders in women and serve as indicators for screening for these disorders. More study is needed to develop psychometric properties of the instruments on larger samples, and to identify speech indicators of personality disorder in men. It is likely that other personality disorders, e.g., borderline personality disorder, can be identified through speech patterns, and they deserve study with these methods.
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An "impressionistic style of speech" means that the person way of speaking tends to be strong on emotion / dramatics, but very low on details/reasons/specifics.
They seem to think in images, impressions. They can't seem to break them down or analyse them.
So, research shows that there are anomalies in the speech patterns of people with Personality Disorders....
The reading I'm finding on HPD (more common in women) emphasizes shifting loyalties in order
to impress whomever the HPD person is with--to forge that supposed intimacy. They will turn themselves inside out and fawn on others shamelessly in order to get attention. In comparison and in my experience, NPD men (NPD and AntisocialPD are more common in men) don't behave in the self-abnegating ways that HPD's tend to. In other words, an NPD man is likely to back an opinion that can be used aggressively to manipulate and tear down another (similar for Antisocial PD, which some psychologists think is merely an extreme manifestation of N); whereas an HPD woman flirts, is overly and inappropriately intimate and sexual, and acts excessively submissive to another's opinions in order to manipulate.
So, HistrionicPD doesn't sound so much like Palin to me--- Palin seems more Narcissistic PD--her worldview is the only correct one, she is chosen by god, she is entitled to great favors due to her special status, she craves attention, she is aggressively uncaring of other people and uses them to her advantage.
NPD is more common in men, and these men are often cold and controlling, but my opinion is that women would be likely to use socially feminized behaviors, i.e. inappropriate self-sexualization to accomplish the control and attention seeking...winking, flirting and other ways of drawing attention to sexual attractiveness. In terms of their family, I believe a woman would be likely to use their children as pawns, sacrificing their children's lives for their own interests and even using pregnancy as a bid for attention and special status.
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