Psychological factors can include a range of influences, such as an anxious temperament, perfectionistic or obsessive tendencies, a history of trauma, a co-occurring psychological disorder (e.g., depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, and certain personality disorders), and either chronic or acute stress.
But then, she lacked the perfectionistic streak that has haunted me my whole life.
Highly successful people tend to be perfectionistic, constantly striving to meet impossible standards.
The perfectionistic sushi chef Jiro Ono requires that his octopus be massaged for forty to fifty minutes.
A person with this disorder shows prominent overscrupulous, perfectionistic traits that are expressed in feelings of insecurity, self-doubt, meticulous conscientiousness, indecisiveness, excessive orderliness, and rigidity of behaviour.
And Jackson, who had not released a studio album since "Invincible" in 2001, was notoriously perfectionistic.
"Desaturating the image will get you 85 percent there, but I wouldn't recommend that, and I stress that," said the perfectionistic Mr. Versace, You can improve your desaturated shot more by experimenting with contrast, sharpness and other controls.
It would be easy, on first glance, to dismiss Madeline Levine's "Teach Your Children Well" as yet another new arrival in a long line of books that have urged us, in the past decade or so, to push back and just say no to the pressures of perfectionistic, high-performance parenting.
The carefully rendered country kitchen chairs and tables stand in mute testimony to Mr. Somer's perfectionistic primitivism.
This might lead to some of them developing perfectionistic traits – which have been found to be linked with developing eating disorders.
In "Bitter Fame," writing with the affectionate asperity of a sibling, Anne Stevenson draws a portrait of Plath as a highly self-involved and confused, unstable, driven, perfectionistic, rather humorless young woman, whose suicide remains a mystery, as does the source of her art, and who doesn't add up.
