#millons subtypes

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Discouraged Borderline — Generally acts pliant, submissive, loyal, and humble. Feels vulnerable and in constant jeopardy. Feels hopeless, depressed, helpless, and powerless.

▐ has avoidant and dependent traits

📃 The Petulant Borderline — Negativistic, impatient, restless, as well as stubborn, defiant, sullen, pessimistic, and resentful. Easily feels slighted and is quickly disillusioned.

▐ has negativistic traits

📃 The Impulsive Borderline — Captivating, capricious, superficial, flighty, distractable, frenetic, and seductive. When fearing loss, the individual becomes agitated. Often gloomy, irritable, and potentially suicidal.

▐ has histrionic or antisocial traits

📃 The Self-Destructive Borderline — Inward-turning, self-punishing, and angry. Abilities to conform and integrate have deteriorated. Increasingly high-strung and moody.

▐ has depressive and self-defeating traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Nomadic Antisocial — They are drifters, roamers, vagrants, adventurers, itinerant vagabonds, tramps, and wanderers. They typically adapt easily in difficult situations, though tend to be shrewd and impulsive. Their mood centers on doom and invincibility.

▐ has schizoid and avoidant traits

📃 The Malevolent Antisocial — They are belligerent, mordant, rancorous, vicious, sadistic, malignant, brutal, and resentful. They often anticipate betrayal and punishment. Often desire revenge. Are truculent, callous, fearless, and guiltless. Often are prone to engaging in dangerous criminal activity, such as grand theft or murder.

▐ has sadistic and paranoid traits

📃 The Covetous Antisocial — They are rapacious, begrudging, and discontentedly yearning. Often hostile and domineering. Often envious and avaricious. They pleasure more in taking than in having.

▐ has negativistic traits

📃 The Risk-Taking Antisocial — They are dauntless, venturesome, intrepid, bold, audacious, and daring; though, often reckless, foolhardy, and heedless. They are unfazed by hazard and often pursue perilous ventures.

▐ has histrionic traits

📃 The Reputation-Defending Antisocial — Needs to be thought of as infallible, unbreakable, indomitable, formidable, and inviolable. Tend to be intransigent when status is questioned. Often overreact to perceived slights.

▐ has narcissistic traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Disquieted Dependent — Restlessly perturbed; disconcerted and fretful; feels dread and foreboding; apprehensively vulnerable to abandonment; lonely unless near supportive figures.

▐ has avoidant traits

📃 The Selfless Dependent — Often merges with and is immersed into another person. They become engulfed, enshrouded, absorbed, and incorporated, into others, willingly giving up their own identity. They will try to become one with or an extension of another person.

▐ has self-defeating traits

📃 The Immature Dependent — characterized by being socially or psychologically stunted, unversed, and childlike. Act undeveloped, inexperienced, and gullible. Often feel or truly are incapable of assuming adult responsibilities.

▐ variant of the "standard" dependent

📃 The Accommodating Dependent — appears gracious, neighborly, eager, benevolent, compliant, obliging, and generally agreeable. Tends to deny any and all disturbing feelings. Readily adopts a submissive and inferior role in most situations.

▐ has histrionic traits

📃 The Ineffectual Dependent — often appear unproductive, gainless, incompetent, and meritless. They typically seek an untroubled life. Often refuses to deal with difficulties. Generally untroubled by shortcomings.

▐ has schizoid traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Phobic Avoidant — Have a general apprehensiveness counterbalanced with an avoidable, tangible cause. Problems often symbolized by a distasteful and specific object or circumstance.

▐ has dependent traits

📃 The Conflicted Avoidant — Characterized by internal discord and dissension. They often fear being dependent. Often or easily unsettled. Typically unreconciled with themselves. They are hesitating, confused, tormented, paroxysmal, and embittered by unresolvable angst.

▐ has negativistic traits

📃 The Hypersensitive Avoidant — They are intensely wary and suspicious. Usually alternating between panicky, terrified, edgy, & timorous; and thin-skinned, high-strung, petulant, & prickly.

▐ has paranoid traits

📃 The Self-Deserting Avoidant — Tends to block or fragment their self-awareness by intense dissociation. Attempts to discard painful images and memories. Casts away untenable thoughts and impulses. Often suicidal.

▐ has depressive traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Languid Schizoid — They experience a marked inertia and generally deficient activation level. They appear intrinsically phlegmatic, lethargic, weary, leaden, lackadaisical, exhausted, and enfeebled. They often are unable to act with spontaneity or seek the simplest pleasures, may experience profound angst, yet lack the vitality to express it strongly.

▐ has depressive and dependent traits

📃 The Remote Schizoid — They appear distant and removed: inaccessible, solitary, isolated, disconnected, secluded, and aimlessly drifting. Tough, they are often peripherally occupied. This subtype is seen among people who would have been otherwise capable of developing normal emotional life but having been subjected to intense hostility lost their innate capability to form bonds. Some residual anxiety regarding this hostility is present.

▐ has avoidant traits

📃 The Depersonalized Schizoid — They are disengaged from others and themselves. They see their "self" as a disembodied or distant object. Their body and mind are sundered, cleaved, dissociated, disjoined, or entirely eliminated eliminated. Often seen as simply staring into the empty space or being occupied with something substantial while actually being occupied with nothing at all.

▐ has schizotypal traits

📃 The Affectless Schizoid — They appear passionless, unresponsive, unaffectionate, chilly, uncaring, unstirred, spiritless, lackluster, unexcitable, unperturbed, and cold; all emotions having seemingly been diminished. They have a strong preference for rigid structures and unemotional logic.

▐ has obsessive-compulsive traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Insipid Schizotypal — A structural exaggeration of the passive-detached pattern, they are marked by a sense of strangeness and nonbeing. They often appear overtly drab, sluggish, inexpressive and are internally bland, barren, indifferent, and insensitive. They often have obscured, vague, and tangential thoughts.

▐ has schizoid, depressive, and dependent traits

📃 The Timorous Schizotypal — A structural exaggeration of the active-detached pattern, they appear warily apprehensive, watchful, suspicious, guarded, and shrinking, acting to deaden excess sensitivity. They are alienated from themselves and others and intentionally block, reverse, or disqualify their own thoughts.

▐ has avoidant and negativistic traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Unprincipled Narcissist — Has a deficient conscience. Is unscrupulous, amoral, disloyal, fraudulent, deceptive, arrogant, and exploitive. Act akin to a con artist and charlatan. Appear dominating, contemptuous, and vindictive.

▐ has antisocial traits

📃 The Amorous Narcissist — often sexually seductive, enticing, beguiling, and tantalizing. They are quite glib and clever. Generally disinclined to real intimacy while indulging hedonistic desires. Characterized by pathological lying and potential swindling. Tends to have many affairs, often with "exotic" partners. (Somewhat synonymous with exhibitionist narcissism)

▐ has histrionic traits

📃 The Compensatory Narcissist — Seeks to counteract or cancel out deep feelings of inferiority and lack of self-esteem. Offsets deficits by creating illusions of being superior, exceptional, admirable, noteworthy. Self-worth results from perceived self-enhancement. (Somewhat synonymous with Vulnerable, Hypervigilant, or Oblivious Narcissism)

▐ has avoidant traits

📃 The Elitist Narcissist — Feels privileged and empowered by virtue of a special childhood status and pseudo-achievements. Their entitled facade bears little relation to reality. They seek a favored and good life. Is extremely upwardly mobile and cultivates special status and advantages by association with others.

▐ variant of the "standard" narcissist

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]

Note: all definitions are taken directly from Millon's writings, which are quite old, with only a few edits and rephrasings to make things more digestible to a modern audience.

📃 The Appeasing Histrionic — Seeks to placate, mend, patch up, and smooth over troubles. Has a knack for settling differences, moderating tempers by yielding, compromising, and conceding. Often sacrifices self for commendation. Tries to make people happy even when it is impossible and to their own detriment.

▐ has dependent and obsessive-compulsive traits

📃 The Vivacious Histrionic — Vigorous, charming, bubbly, brisk, spirited, flippant, and impulsive. They seek momentary cheerfulness and playful adventures. Appears animated, energetic, and ebullient.

▐ has turbulent and/or narcissistic traits

📃 The Tempestuous Histrionic — They are impulsive and out of control. Often have moody complaints for any situation or are sulking alone. Have precipitous emotion and are stormy, impassioned, easily wrought-up, periodically inflamed, and generally turbulent.

▐ has negativistic traits

📃 The Disingenuous Histrionic — often are underhanded, double-dealing, scheming, contriving, plotting, crafty, and false-hearted. Additionally tend to be egocentric, insincere, deceitful, calculating, and guileful.

▐ has antisocial traits

📃 The Theatrical Histrionic — Often well mannered and put-on, their postures are striking, eye-catching, and graphic. They market their appearance which is usually synthesized and stagy. They simulate desirable or dramatic poses for attention.

▐ variant of the "standard" histrionic

📃 The Infantile Histrionic — Have fluctuating, high-strung, and volatile emotions. Characterized by childlike hysteria and pouting. Often appear demanding and overwrought. Readily fastens and clutches to another, becoming excessively attached they hang on, stay fused and clinging to the individual.

▐ has borderline traits

More of Millon's subtypes:

[ASPD] [AVPD] [BPD] [DPD] [DPPD]

[HPD] [OCPD] [PPD] [NGPD] [NPD]