Hyperesthetic

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Depressive

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Anesthetic Personality Disorder The Anesthetic Personality results from desiring, needing, and delighting in power; and from fearing, and being distressed by, weakness. Anesthetic Cutting, active coldness Passive insensitivity Canalization of interest into well-defined autistic directions Indifference, or unshakable equilibrium Indolent instability or active caprice Tenacity: steely energy, stubborn wilfulness, pedantry, fanaticism, logical systematism in thought and action I've lost the source of this text. I believe that the author is Theodore Millon summarizing Kretschmer.

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