Correspondence Azad Hemmati, Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran. Email: A.hemmati@uok.ac.ir Abstract The antisocial and violent behaviors of cult-like religious groups (CRGs) and the maladaptive social consequences of their activities suggest clinical or character pathology and invite diagnostic and dynamic formulations of their members' personalities. The current study utilized secondary reports in the commercial media about CRG members, combined with the lived experience method of two of the authors. The resulting core characteristics of CRG members were then classified following the alternative DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders. The overall clinical picture is then discussed in terms of the shared psychodynamic sources that undergird the behaviors of the antisocial-obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. By tracing the personality characteristics into their unconscious sadomasochistic conflicts, these insights shed light on the paradoxical frequent co-occurrence of antisocial and obsessive-compulsive characteristics among extremists, in contrast to the patient population at large.

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类似邪教的宗教团体中反社会和强迫性人格特征之间的相互作用：DSM-5 的心理动力学解码

通讯员 Azad Hemmati，库尔德斯坦大学心理学系，伊朗萨南达季。电子邮件：A.hemmati@uok.ac.ir 摘要 类似邪教团体 (CRG) 的反社会和暴力行为及其活动的不良社会后果表明了临床或性格病理，并邀请对其成员个性进行诊断和动态表述. 目前的研究利用商业媒体中关于 CRG 成员的二次报道，并结合两位作者的亲身体验方法。然后根据替代 DSM-5 人格障碍替代模型对 CRG 成员的最终核心特征进行分类。然后根据共同的心理动力学来源讨论整体临床情况，这些来源支持反社会强迫型人格障碍的行为。通过将人格特征追踪到他们无意识的施虐受虐冲突中，这些见解揭示了极端分子中反社会和强迫性特征的矛盾频繁同时发生，与整个患者群体形成鲜明对比。