7: Compulsive
Rule-bound and duty-bound, the RCComp Spectrum pattern evidences an allegiance to an outside power,
authority, establishment, or ideology, and experiences a “compulsion” to conform and meet expectations.
RCComp individuals tend to keep their needs unexpressed, continually deferring to “what is needed or
expected”, which can create an underlying pool of denial and resentment. These individuals tend to display
the following array of personologic domains:
Behavioral Level
(F) Expressively Disciplined (e.g., maintains a regulated, highly structured and strictly-organized life; perfectionism interferes with decision-making and task completion).
(F) Interpersonally Respectful (e.g., exhibits unusual adherence to social conventions and proprieties, as well as being scrupulous and overconscientious about matters of morality and ethics; prefers polite, formal and correct personal relationships, usually insisting that subordinates adhere to personally established rules and methods).
Phenomenological Level
(F) Cognitively Constricted (e.g., constructs world in terms of rules, regulations, schedules and hierarchies; is rigid, stubborn, and indecisive and notably upset by unfamiliar or novel ideas and customs).
(S) Conscientious Self-Image (e.g., sees self as devoted to work, industrious, reliable, meticulous and efficient, largely to the exclusion of leisure activities; fearful of error or misjudgment and, hence overvalues aspects of self that exhibit discipline, perfection, prudence and loyalty).
(S) Concealed Contents (e.g., only those internalized representations, with their associated inner affects and attitudes that can be socially approved, are allowed conscious awareness or behavioral expression; as a result, actions and memories are highly regulated, forbidden impulses sequestered and tightly bound, personal and social conflicts defensively denied, kept from awareness, maintained under stringent control)
Intrapsychic Level
(F) Reaction Formation Dynamics (e.g., repeatedly presents positive thoughts and socially commendable behaviors that are diametrically opposite one’s deeper contrary and forbidden feelings; displays reasonableness and maturity when faced with circumstances that evoke anger or dismay in others).
(S) Compartmentalized Architecture (e.g., morphologic structures are rigidly organized in a tightly consolidated system that is clearly partitioned into numerous, distinct and segregated constellations of drive, memory, and cognition, with few open channels to permit interplay among these components).
Biophysical Level
(S) Solemn Mood (e.g., is unrelaxed, tense, joyless and grim; restrains warm feelings and keeps most emotions under tight control).