Edward McInnis
Don Richard Riso, in Personality Types, calls the levels of the unhealthy Four, in descending order: “the Alienated Depressive,” the Emotionally Tormented Person” and “the Self-Destructive Person.”
Unhealthy Fours are saturated with self-hatred, self-contempt, intense anger often turned inward, pathetic but dearly held convictions of themselves as outcast victims yet somehow special and elevated above the common herd, an intense hellish feeling of morbid despair and ultimately sel...

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