Even something like introversion/extraversion, which we have strong evidence and measures for, is a continuous scale rather than a binary, with most people landing somewhere near the middle.

Most personality measurement systems (such as the MBTI) are pseudoscience; and we know this because the same person will not reliably get consistent results when testing again a few weeks after an initial test.

Sure, if we knew a lot more about psychology than we currently do, you could probably come up with a way to place a person’s personality in a continuous N-dimensional space, where N > 1000... but what good would that do you?

But anyway, that’s not the part of your message that’s most interesting. What about you do you think needs “fixing”; and how would such a theory help you?

My mind broke. And yes, it's my mind and not a neuropsychiatric problem. What happened is that my mind had a segmentation fault and now I'm trapped in the same psychological space that elsagate videos exist (search youtube to get an idea of what I'm talking about) in. As a consequence of this I have strange paraphilias that I cannot get rid of.

No existing method of therapy works.

And don't say I'm trolling just because this is outside your quotidian experience. Remember that you inquired into the matter and I am giving you the whole truth.

I don't know any therapy that is appropriate for this. CBT is for depression and anxiety and I don't have THOSE problems.

There are a number of studies which identify a set of features and then search for clusters / 'categories' with various methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_discriminant_analysis

> LDA is also closely related to principal component analysis (PCA) and factor analysis in that they both look for linear combinations of variables which best explain the data.[4] LDA explicitly attempts to model the difference between the classes of data. PCA on the other hand does not take into account any difference in class, and factor analysis builds the feature combinations based on differences rather than similarities. Discriminant analysis is also different from factor analysis in that it is not an interdependence technique: a distinction between independent variables and dependent variables (also called criterion variables) must be made.

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> Is anybody else interested in designing a categorical personality theory that can be used to fix yourself

How helpful is personality theory in developing a clinical model for behavior change?

What scientific facts are there to suggest that there are discrete "personality types"?

So which one is more parsimonious: there are two discrete personality types (narcissist and psychopath) and everyone else is ill-defined, or everyone exists in a discrete personality type?

Those are personality disorders.

They are personality disorders; trying to insert some kind of bias against political correctness isn't going to change that, nor does it support anything you're trying to say.

"If they were disorders they would be ego-dystonic."

I'm not sure you understand the concepts of disorders, or you're on some conspiracy trip; either way I'm not interested in debating someones opinion versus current scientific understanding.

Please could you link to the DSM V section for psychopath?

(note: the quarks need to be counted 3 times because each color is different)

(note: I like to count the L and R particles as different)

(note: antiparticles don't count)

Force Bosons: 1 + (2^2-1) + (3^2-1) + something for gravitons when we confirm them

Higgs Boson: 1

Looks like a nice symmetric scheme for me.