Accentuation of personality and its types

The German psychotherapist K. Leonhard is convinced that most people have many character traits that are pointed. It is only necessary to create certain conditions, and there may be nervous breakdowns or similar conflicts.

Personality accentuation is a hypertrophic development of some character traits on the background of others, which leads to a violation of relationships with others. In the presence of such a symptom in a person begins to show excessive sensitivity to certain factors that cause stress. This is despite the relative stability of the rest.

Accentuation can be expressed so much that the symptoms of it will be hardly noticeable to close people, but its level of manifestation can be such that doctors can ponder the formulation of such a diagnosis as psychopathy. But the last disease is characterized by constant manifestations and regular relapses. And the accentuation of character can smooth over time and become close to a normal state.

As practice shows, this symptom is most often found in adolescents and young men (approximately 70% of cases). The accentuation of personality is not always manifested clearly, because it can be determined with the help of specially developed psychological tests. During their conduct, people can behave in a specific way, and it is important for the doctor to be able to foresee such a reaction.

Identify such types of personality in psychology, which depend on the degree of manifestation of accentuation:

1. The hypertensive type is characterized by an elevated mood, increased talkativeness, and contactness. People with this form of the disease, as a rule, very often lose the initial thread of conversation, do not react to the comments made and deny all punishment. They are very energetic, mobile, non-self-critical, like unreasonable risk.
2. The accentuation of the personality can be a dysthymic type, which is the complete opposite of the previous one. The representative of this species is constantly in a depressed state, is sad and is a closed personality. It is burdened by a noisy society, it does not converge with employees, does not like communication. If it becomes a participant in conflicts (which is extremely rare), then it acts as a passive party.
3. Cycloid type is characterized by frequent changes of mood. If it is upbeat, a person actively communicates, than becomes similar to a representative of the hypertimic type. If a person is in a more depressed state, his behavioral reactions resemble people of a dysthymic type.
4. Emotional type (emotional). The accentuation of personality in this case is manifested by excessive sensitivity of character, vulnerability. A person begins to deeply experience even the minimum troubles, takes painfully with comments and criticism, is sensitive if he is unsuccessful, because he is often in a depressed mood.
5. The demonstrative type is always in the center of attention and achieves the goal at any cost.
6. A person of an excitable type is often unrestrained, quick-tempered, inclined to rudeness, and too conflicted.
7. The jamming type. Representatives are fixated on their feelings and emotions, in conflicts appearing in the role of an active party, are inclined to protracted disputes.
8. Pedantic type is characterized by "tediousness" in everything, starting a life and ending with professional activity.
9. People of an alarming type are afraid for themselves and for others, they are not confident in themselves, they suffer a hard defeat.
10. Exalted type is characterized by mood changes, vivid emotions and talkative.
11. The schizoid personality accentuation, as a rule, is manifested in isolation, immersion in oneself, restraint and coldness in communication.
12. The latter type in this classification - extraverted - is characterized by an increased degree of talkativeness, lack of personal opinion, disorganization, and also lack of autonomy.