Where Psychologists Fear to Tread
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 26/01/2021

Where do we draw the line between normal and pathological?

I. Believing in Religious Scriptures Literally

Quantity of followers: cult, sect, or religion

Religious people as junkies

God Gene Hypothesis

DSM's pusillanimous Political Correctness

Delusional Disorder and DID possession

Marx and Freud on Religion

II. Conspiracism and the Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

III. Defiance, contumaciousness

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder

IV. Seductiveness

Borderline Personality Disorder

Histrionic Personality Disorder

V. Being a Loner

Schizoid Personality Disorder