Back Beheervraat Afrikaans مهووس بالسيطرة Arabic Kontrollfreak German وسواس کنترل اوضاع Persian Maniaque du contrôle French コントロールフリーク Japanese Control freak Russian Манијак за контролом Serbian Kontrollbehov Swedish Control freak Ukrainian
Control freak is a colloquialism that is usually employed to describe a person obsessed with performing tasks in a way that they perceive as correct. A control freak can become distressed when someone causes a deviation in the way that they prefer to perform tasks.[1] Someone who tries to control how other people perform tasks, while having no good reason for interfering, can also be considered a control freak.[2]
This expression was introduced around the 1960s.[3]
- ^ "Control freak Definition & Meaning". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ^ "How to Deal with a Control Freak". Health Essentials. Cleveland Clinic. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ Kristin Glaser, in The Radical Therapist (Penguin 1974) p. 246