making lists out of everything rigidity in thought - mentally inflexible strict adherence to tradition and morality focus on the trees - ignore the forest dogmatism rules are of highest value preoccupation with order preoccupation with control hoarding stuff that does not have sentimental value what's interesting is that the Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder may not themselves be very neat and organized to an outside observer. What matters is the obsession with an organization which may or may not be apparent, even to the ocpd himself. the OCPD person strictly and unquestioningly adheres to an internal set of rules which he may or may not have been solely responsible for creating. This set of rules more often than not is a conglomerate of past experiences, the individual's reaction to them, and the subsequent set of conclusions. The actual set of rules that one follows is irrelevant to the OCPD. What is relevant to OCPD is the appro...
Experiments in Hermetics and Magic