Liability-aggressive behavior

The expression liability-aggressive can apply to an attitude in particular or a personality in general. It indicates a passive behavior of obstructionism or resistance or avoidance in the interpersonal relationships or the activities.

This attitude can appear in the form of resentment, of stubbornness, procrastination, acrimony, failure repeated to achieve a task for which the person is - often explicitly - responsible.

It is about a mechanism of defense which, generally, is only partially conscious. A personality " passive-agressive" express outside its aggressiveness only through one passive frontage. For example, this type of personality will express anger mainly in a subtle way, by insinuations or not-verbal behaviors, often denied if these behaviors are clarified by the subject which undergoes them. The behaviors " liability-agressifs" can include for example: the fact of forgetting appointments, engagements, or of arriving late continuously; the fact of formulating unpleasant words or insinuations, then to claim that these words or insinuations were badly interpreted, and to deny any ulterior motive; the fact of exteriorizing feelings in a not-verbal way (for example by claquant a door, or by throwing an object), then to deny the feelings that this behavior can legitimately evoke (e.g., anger).

The behavior " liability-agressif" like personality disorder

The qualification of these comportemens like " disorder of the personnalité" is discussed. Designation was withdrawn from DSM-IV, and was carried to its " B" appendix; , in waiting of thorough research.

Origin

The expression " liability-agressif" was initially used in the American army during the Second world war, whereas military psychiatrists noticed the behavior of passive resistance or reticent obedience of certain soldiers with the orders given.

Usual signs of the liability-aggressive behaviors

Ambiguity
chronic Delays and distraction
Tendency to complain
does not express the hostility or anger openly
Peur of the authority
Peur of the competition
Peur of the dependence
Peur of the intimacy
intentional Ineficacité
Fabriquer excuses
Perdre the objects
Mensonge
Obstructionnisme
Procrastination
Ressentiment
resistance to the suggestions of the others
Sarcasme
Entêtement
Morosité

An passive-aggressive personality can not have all these characteristics, and can have of them others which are not " passive-agressives"

References

External bonds (in English)

Eliminating Passivates Aggressiveness
Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder - Health Library
Recovery from Passive Aggressive At Dr. Irene' S Verbal Deceives Site
Skeptical/Negativistic Personality - Theodore Million
The Passive-Aggressive Organization - Harvard Business Review article, Oct. 1,2005.
(article) Furnace Ways off Understanding Passive Aggressive Behaviors."
What is "passive-aggressive? " The Straight Dope.com
Passivates Aggressive Notes Passive Aggressive Notes

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