Wake up! (Score 1)

Relatively speaking, your 'personality profile' says very little about your identity, and it is not very predictive of your behavior. The current business of psychiatric diagnosis barely rises above the level of Rorsarch tests, phrenology, or Myers-Briggs personality tests. In other words, it is psychobabble that tells you more about the person who designed the test than about the person taking the test. In the case of psychiatry, it tells you that the person who devised the personality profile is obsessed with finding something wrong with you, and they are even willing to poison you in order to make you normal. But psychiatry has no theory of what causes normality, and that is because normality is an assumption that cannot be tested. Psychiatry is in most cases actually more insidious than most psychobabble, because it insinuates by argument from pseudoscience that the psychiatrist understands you better than you understand yourself. I speak only of psychiatry, the business of prescribing pharmaceutical chemicals, not psychology, the more general study of the psyche, because the latter attempts to understand consciousness, but the former has no theory of consciousness. How can it, when it deals exclusively with chemical processes, and consciousness is not a chemical reaction? The life of the mind is an interesting subject of study, but not when it is reduced to a hollow mechanistic process. We are intelligent beings who are capable of introspection and modifying our own behavior. Some, no doubt more so than others, but when you get right down to it the psychology of authority is that authority deserves control and non-authority deserves submission. But science cannot support the legitimacy of one neurotic mentality over another.