You’re having dinner with your boyfriend, and he’s reminding you for the third time to eat the salad, not the pasta. It’s not control vs. calories control. Why, then? Why must some people have to ...

Control freaks have had a bad rap. I should know: I am one, just like Kristen Stewart, my sister in arms, who recently revealed—in her signature rockstar drawl—that she’s “like, a total control freak” ...

Often, we hear about “control freaks,” a term that arose in the late 1960s. They are people who compulsively seek to direct, manage, or otherwise be in charge of someone or something. Such people ...