Passive-Aggressive?

[coriolan_cmc2001]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> I have another question.
> 
> What is the meaning of 'passive-aggressive'?  It has come up on the 
main list a few times recently.
> 
Passive-aggressive was at one time a personality disorder listed by 
the APA in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (1987, 3rd 
Edition, Revised), though it was dropped from the 1993 Fourth Edition 
(maybe the PA's refused to return the questionnaires).


Here's a website that will give you more than you could possibly want 
to know about it:

http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/papd.htm

But for the rest of us, here's how the DSM defines P-A:
 
·	passive resistance to fulfilling social and occupational 
tasks through procrastination and inefficiency;
·	complaints of being misunderstood, unappreciated, and 
victimized by others;
·	sullenness, irritability, and argumentativeness in response 
to expectations;
·	angry and pessimistic attitudes toward a variety of events;
·	unreasonable criticism and scorn toward those in authority;
·	envy and resentment toward those who are more fortunate;
·	self-definition as luckless in life and an inclination to 
whine and grumble about being jinxed;
·	alternating behavior between hostile assertion of personal 
autonomy and dependent contrition 

  - CMC