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• Self-control—the ability to inhibit competing urges, impulses, behaviors, or desires and delay gratification in order to pursue distal goals—is often equated with success and happiness. Indeed, inhibitory control is highly valued by most societies, and failures in self-control characterize many of the personal and social problems afflicting modern ...
• focused perfectionists who tend to see mistakes everywhere (that is, OC clients), radically open dialectical behavior therapy begins by observing what’s healthy (about all of us) and uses this to guide treatment interventions. Psychological health or well-being in RO DBT is hypothesized to involve three core transacting features: Receptivity and op...
• and happiness.
• Overcontrol has been linked to social isolation, poor interpersonal functioning, hyperperfectionism, rigidity, risk aversion, lack of emotional expression, and the development of severe and difficult-to-treat mental health problems, such as chronic depression, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
• Maladaptive overcontrol is posited to represent a personality style that results from transactions between temperamental predispositions (nature) and family/environmental/cultural influences (nurture) that create a style of coping characterized by excessive inhibitory control and aloof relationships (OC coping) that functions to limit new learning,...