{"id":6275,"date":"2015-01-25T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2015-01-25T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T09:02:48","slug":"the-secrets-to-handling-passive-aggressive-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/25\/the-secrets-to-handling-passive-aggressive-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secrets To Handling Passive-Aggressive People"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With all due respect to these studies, it&#8217;s safe to say that PA (Passive Aggresive &#8211;gian) behavior is problematic and annoying. But whether it deserves to be defined as a bona fide mental illness \u2014 and subsequent stigmatization in society at large \u2014 seems debatable. Calls to restore its place as a formal pathology are indicative of the struggles of psychiatry to justify its (often qualitative, normative) definitions of mental illness. It&#8217;s important to draw a line between pathologizing PA behavior and figuring out how to deal with difficult individuals in one&#8217;s life. What&#8217;s more, it risks pathologizing compliant defiance in the face of authority, whether it be work-to-rule actions, the Occupy Movement, or (sadly) a potentially abusive home or work environment.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-secrets-to-handling-passive-aggressive-people-1681127156?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">The Secrets To Handling Passive-Aggressive People<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all due respect to these studies, it&#8217;s safe to say that PA (Passive Aggresive &#8211;gian) behavior is problematic and annoying. But whether it deserves to be defined as a bona fide mental illness \u2014 and subsequent stigmatization in society at large \u2014 seems debatable. Calls to restore its place as a formal pathology are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/25\/the-secrets-to-handling-passive-aggressive-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Secrets To Handling Passive-Aggressive People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,73,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-psychology","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}