The term characterological problem refers to psychological problems that have been caused by problems in a persons normal psychological development and not because of their genes.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

Instead one worries about what has always seemed her characterological bellicosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex and the Presidency] Reference

Your problems are, to use the jargon, characterological as much as they are physcial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

The characterological structure that he brings to the table fits the profile we put together real well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

They bet on America's characterological evil and not on her sense of fairness, generosity or ingenuity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Referendum on the Redeemer] Reference

The characterological anomalies at the bottom of his career came to the front already in his childhood days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

The alcoholic addresses the conflict between his values and his behavior or “characterological conflict.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can Recover From Alcoholism] Reference

In every instance we find that the characterological anomaly became manifest already during their school career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Mothers of infants consistently placed at high risk presented serious characterological and borderline characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

While it is epidemic amongst the opulent, this characterological deficiency does not recognize socioeconomic boundaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [35% of US Americans Still Support Bush: Diagnosing the Insanity] Reference

And one of the components, the most likely component, is this characterological or temperamental trait of perfectionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2004] Reference

He found Peter to be a characterological (ph) narcissist, which means embedded in his very being is the fact that he comes first.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008] Reference

Toughness is a unitary quality, really -- a personal, characterological quality rather than one rooted in policy or divisible in any real way.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2004] Reference

But maybe it would show an emotional suppleness, and a characterological ability to see things as they are, which is always nice in a president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confidence or Derangement?] Reference

You lead out of a feeling that your opposition is really only the latest incarnation of that old characterological evil that you always knew was there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Referendum on the Redeemer] Reference

These symptoms are lacking in nonmelancholic dysthymias, which are predominantly distinguished by characterological abnormalities and a variety of anxiety-related symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

I didn't know "characterological" was a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

I will use "characterological" a lot now too!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I got a kick out of this] Reference

The term 'character' and 'characterological' has been used in a variety of ways over the years.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

Their characterological make-up was such that they enjoyed the rough and tumble of the Presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates of Vienna] Reference

In other words there is this pre-psychological, pre-characterological impulse, which has to do with language.    From Wordnik.com.  [5th Estate] Reference

Julia Round, 2005, discusses such characterological issues in "Fragmented Identity: The Superhero Condition.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I have a certain characterological antipathy to the notion of we're all getting better and better all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketplace] Reference

Also Myalterego asks a question to my post, Transference - the good and the bad, about characterological problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

So people with a characterological problem are often seen as having what is sometimes called a Personality Disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

Lincoln and Douglas were lifelong rivals far apart on any spectrum, whether physical, characterological, or ideological.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claremont.org] Reference

Toughness is a unitary quality, really-a personal, characterological quality rather than one rooted in policy or divisible in any real way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice] Reference

At the moment I am writing a lot of case studies and have one that clearly illustrates a characterological problem so I thought I would use it here.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

Snediker said readerly expectations involve questions of characterological plausibility and development, as well as necessities of what we imagine as narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen's Journal: Latest stories] Reference

Perhaps these apparent manifestations of phallic narcissism and sociopathy are simply characterological traits and not symptoms of an ingrained personality disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference

It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage -- the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Because this problem began when he was an infant and it involves a disturbance in the basic attachment with mother then it could be diagnosed as a characterological problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference

John Luc Picard isn’t characterological conservative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History] Reference

My best answer is that it fits broadly into the characterological preference of the mainstream media. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Muse: The Consensus On Last Night's Debate Format] Reference

The characterological structure that he brings to the table fits the profile we put together real well.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

characterological, 183t, 189.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

It is also called "masked depression," "underlying characterological depression," and "depression equivalents" p.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference