Talk:Dependent personality disorder

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This article needs more links. -- Fearisstrong 15:24, 23 Jul 2006 (UTC)

This article needs review to make it more NPOV. -- The Anome 07:46, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

The real trouble here is the patchwork approach of most current psychological theory.

 An overriding theory of human and other species behavior exists but is not incorporated in this article or the concept.

 Regarding Dependence:

  Behavioral dependence is a drive with bimodal expression whereof the primary expression by the neonate elicits the secondary expression by the parent/caregiver.
 The evolutionary influence of dependence drive is similar to that of competitive sexual selection as noted by Darwin and operates in the following manner.  The period of infantile-juevenile dependence cannot exceed the capacity of the parental response.  This acts dynamicaly through evolution to either restrict or extend the period of primary dependence.   The influence of these behaviors is significant on the maturational and developmental reproductive characteristics of the specific species exhibiting behavioral dependence.

 Regarding Dependence Disorders:

  First; it must be recognized that among primate species and especially among H. Sapien enculturation/socialization, its achievment and its display, is competitive sexual selection.  Therefore, the close conjunction of the operation of the primary dependence impulse and the competitive/enculturative impulse functions during the primary enculturative period, historicaly referred to as the psycho-sexual stages, when these two named drive impulses are in fact incongruent and often incompatible can generate various maladaptive behaviors.

 However:
 
 The basic evolutionary function of any culture, be it avian, reptile, mammal, etc. or even H. variations, is regulation of intra-species competition.  Thus, regulation of competition as competition.
 So, among humans, where we do not observe a true culture of dominance as is seen in most other primates, other factors, primarily inclusion (as inclusive membership) is the act of competitive significance.  Cultural inclusion acts through establishing a range of acquired behavioral adaptations.  Then we must question the validity or the appropriateness of classifying some behaviors as maladaptive and limit the application of the concept of dependence disorders to only the most significant.  Among which we would expect to find infanticide, paracide & sch.

[edit] What's HPD?

The article breaks the rule about abbreviations: it starts using one before it introduces the long-form term. So, does anyone know what HPD is?

I added the missing link. Please read the article again to find it. --Gogino 00:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

HPD = Histrionic Personality Disorder.

On another issue, can someone please tell me what this part of the article means: "Clinical interest in dependent personality disorder has existed since Abraham first described the oral character"?

This sounds totally out of context. Who is Abraham, and what is the oral chracter? Is this the Abraham of the Bible talking about the oral tradition of passing down stories? What this has to do with Dependent Personality Disorder is beyond me. - Geelin 13:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

You can read section 108 at [1], the whole page at [2], and here you need a subscribtion [3].

--Gogino 07:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, OK, but it would be worth explaining such terms in the article; the piece should be self-explanatory (jargon terms should be properly defined, so that people don't have to go searching around the internet for definitions). There should also be no ambiguity about what's in the article, otherwise it sounds unfathomable. Geelin 15:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright infringement?

I compared a few lines from the current version of this article with the Sharon Eckleberry (hope I spelled that right) webpage listed as a reference. They were identical, and I bet that a line-by-line comparison would show that entire paragraphs are from the Eckleberry page. The website that posted the article has a copyright page [4] which says, among other things, that "The articles which are RESIDENT (as opposed to linked to another site) on this site are the property of their respective authors/owners. The use of articles residing on (linked to) another site should adhere to copyright law and/or any use guidelines presented by that site. You are free to download, copy/print and use any article which is RESIDENT on this site as long as you attribute/credit the article's authorship/ownership in the body of the article, do not modify the content of the article in any way, and do not use the article for commercial gain." That would rule out its use in Wikipedia. Katherine Tredwell 16:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

The outside links no longer work and the pages seem to be gone. (When I looked at the site before, it had a notice that it was no longer being actively maintained.) Without the original for comparison, it is hard to tell what from the wikipedia article might be copyvio or otherwise problematic. I hope somebody sees this someday and looks into the matter. Katherine Tredwell 18:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mnemonic?

What's that mnemonic section on the page? Why is it relevant to the content of the page? It seems just crap to help people studying about the subject remember it for the exam. That's not really what Wikipedia is for, is it? 200.127.223.79 (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2008 (UTC)