Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on The Control Freak. It needs to be at least 2250 words.Download file to see previous pages... This essay will argue that it is often a combination o

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on The Control Freak. It needs to be at least 2250 words.

This essay will argue that it is often a combination of different factors that leads to the tendency of attempted obsessive control over others, and that each case should be considered as an individual, unique combination of causes, symptoms and prognosis for treatment.

First of all it is necessary to state that there is not, perhaps obviously, a clinical condition called "control freak" (Saddock, 1994). However, several serious scholars have used the term as a useful catch-all for discussing the intricacies of particular conditions. For example, Steiner (2000) suggests that the "control freak' is explained by the "deployment of primitive defense mechanisms" which seek to prevent "integrating affect, context and countertransference to provide meaningful communication of a straightforward kind". Further, Fiske et al (1996) suggest that the need to pathologically control others to an extreme may in fact be a symptom of various anxiety disorders. Thus the feeling that a person is unable to control themselves and their own environment (leading to anxiety), exhibits itself within an attempt to control others to an extreme degree. ...

Again, the idea that each case of empowerment (and control) should be dealt with on an individual basis, arises.

How then can the overall idea of "control freak" be related to psychological conditions What is the cause of the behavior and how can it be defined and treated How then can the overall idea of "control freak" be related to psychological conditions What is the cause of the behavior and how can it be defined and treated Trait theory might be a good place to start, as it involves large scale traits that may be easy to fit within specific psychological conditions. The American Psychiatric Association defines personality traits as "enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts." (2006). The various theorists that have studied trait theory suggests that these traits are reasonably stable over time, differ among people and that these mental traits influence actual behavior that can be studied in an empirical manner.

Allport's delineation of different traits or dispositions is of great relevance to the idea of the control freak. Thus central traits are basic to a person's personality, while secondary traits are peripheral. Allport also identified common traits that may exist within a particular culture and which, logically, must thus vary between cultures. Lastly, cardinal traits are those traits which a person can be strongly recognized by.

A study to test this theory of traits would involve several different features.