2/20/08

Say Goodbye to Your PDIs

Stan Kapuchinski, MD

Show Description:
The Caring Person, The Rescuer, The Guilty Person, The Giving Person, The Abused Person, The Insecure Person. If you fall into one (or more) of these categories, chances are you've been the victim of a PDI. You're sick of all the manipulation and the feelings of being trappedÂ-but just don't know how to stop the pattern. Psychiatrist and columnist Stan Kapuchinski explains that some toxic people have what the DSM II calls a personality disorder .
According to most institutions that study personality disorders, personality disordered individuals-PDIs-have a maladaptive and inflexible behavior style that firms up around adolescence and continues through adulthood. While the disorder is certainly deeply rooted, we don't have to take it, and Dr. Kapuchinski, a veteran in the realm of psychiatry, shows you just how to get out of the reach of the PDI's mental agenda and avoid his or her incessant need for adoration, attention, domination, control, avoidance, and dependency.

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Guest Bio:
Stan Kapuchinski, M.D., is a board certified in psychiatry and neurology. He was a dean's list undergraduate at New York's Fordham University. After Being a National Institute of Health fellow at Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Dr. Kapuchinski attended St. Louis University where he recieved his M.D. degree.

He then pursued postgraduate training at the Boston University Medical Center in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut.

Dr. Kapuchinski served in the U.S. Air Force where he held the rank of Major and was the department chairman of in-patient and out-patient psychiatry. While in the military, Dr. Kapuchinski also initiated a bio-behavioral program for psychosomatic illnesses.

While serving as a psychiatric consultant to numerous medical, business and government organizations, Dr. Kapuchinski was a psychiatric volunteer at the Peruvian Amazon River Basin. Additionally, he functioned as Senior Psychiatric Specialist in Queensland, Australia.

Dr Kapuchinski's health column, "Ask Dr. K," is presently published in the Charlotte Sun Herald along with a more tongue-in-cheek column, "Ask Dr. Bob, The Evil Twin," which addresses mental health issues in a more irreverent yet dignified manner.

Dr Kapuchinski continues to practice psychiatry and write in southwest Florida.