In George Simon Jnr's brilliant book Character Disturbance [Affiliate link], he talks a little about passive aggression and distinguishes it from covert aggression. On pages 74-75 he says: Passive-aggression is an often misunderstood and mislabeled personality type. The official psychiatric manual doesn't even recognize this as a personality pattern any more....Unfortunately, clinicians and lay people alike… Continue reading Covert aggression is not the same as passive aggression
