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Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

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von: Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi
109,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	14.08.2009
ISBN/EAN:	9780470749364
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	278

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A key text for Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, as well as trainees in the area. Presenting a clinical model which has close connections with American constructivist psychotherapy and Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. <ul> <li>Delineates a set of principles in the study of consciousness that place the first-person perspective at the heart of the analysis of emotional disorders</li> <li>Differentiates six personality styles, describing the origin of the subjective emotional experience; the ordering and the regulation of the emotional domain, and the psychopathological disorders</li> <li>Provides neuroscientific evidence showing that brain activity could be related to personality styles</li> </ul> Praise for Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles: “Arciero and Bondolfi show in fine detail how the sense of self emerges in first- and second-person experiences, forming a dynamic, emotive and narrative identity; they then brilliantly demonstrate how this self-identity gets distorted and disrupted in the pathologies that directly undermine this process. This is a landmark study that brings together materials from multiple disciplines. Their analysis provides a clear account of how our existential being-in-the-world is modulated by narrative practices. They show how the ongoing construction of personality delineated by the various emotional tendencies that are sedimented in the individual’s life comes to be reflected in personal narrative. Arciero and Bondolfi continuously make insightful connections between research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and emotion studies and then carry these basic insights into the realm of psychiatry. The psychiatric analyses offered here are thus enriched by clinical vignettes and enlightened by the integration of philosophical (especially phenomenological and hermeneutical), psychological, neuroscientific, and literary dimensions”. Shaun Gallagher, Professor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida “Arciero and Bondolfi have written a timely, thought-provoking and challenging book, providing the reader with a refreshingly new account of Self-identity and its disorders. A cogent and novel contribution to psychiatric thought that wonderfully integrates philosophy, psychopathology and contemporary neuroscience. This book will push psychiatry in new directions. A must read!.” Vittorio Gallese, Professor of Human Physiology, University of Parma ,Italy “Selfhood, Identity, and Personality Styles is a highly ambitious work of theoretical synthesis: neuroscience, phenomenology, and social constructionism are joined together with the study of both literature and psychopathology. Arciero and Bondolfi offer sophisticated and intriguing discussions not only of mirror neurons and developmental psychology, but also of ideas from Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, of characters from Dostoevsky, Kleist, and Pessoa, and of patients from clinical practice. A ground-breaking, first attempt to show the relevance of the interdisciplinary study of basic self-experience for our understanding of character styles and personality disorders.” Louis A. Sass, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University “This is a scholarly book which will provide the reader with plenty to chew on. This book will make you think, will illuminate how people function and will help you understand how self disordered experience, such as the feeling that one disappears or doesn’t exist when another leaves, occurs. The authors tackle with great sophistication, the big questions of how sameness, changing experience and temporality are woven together by language and narrative. Refusing to be reduced to the simplicity of objectivist account of functioning they offer profound phenomenological views on identity and emotion that show a deep appreciation of the complexity of what it is to be a person. Their analysis of functioning leads to the specification of inward and outward dispositional dimensions and using clinical and literary examples they provide descriptions of different styles of personality along this continuum ranging from eating disorder prone personalities, focused on the other at one end of the continuum and depression prone personalities focused excessively inwardly, at the other end.” Leslie Greenberg,Professorof Psychology, York University, Canada

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Subjectivity and Ipseity From Kant to cybernetics The sense of Self and the variety of experience Non-linear systems and the construction of the Self <ol> <li>Non-linear Systems</li> <li>Construction of the Self</li> </ol> The Organization of living systems and Constructivism of the Self. <ol> <li>The Organization of living systems</li> <li>Constructivism of the Self</li> </ol> Robert’s Self from a systemic perspective The continuity of the sense of Self The return of the world and the question who (Die Werfrage) <ol> <li>Returning to the world</li> <li>The question who (Die Werfrage)</li> </ol> Finding itself in things and with others Reflection Meaning Chapter 2 Ipseity and Language Traces of the other Shared meaning Finding oneself in the world: suggestions from phenomenology Body-to-body The significativity of expressions and objects Referential communication Oneself in the mirror and in the refraction of language Recognition of Self in the mirror and in language Affective engagements Acting and speaking Chapter 3 Personal Identity Speaking of the past Stories of the future The sense of Self in the Age of reason The modes of identity Inclinations Situatedness The body, pain, and others Chapter 4 Emotioning Embodied emotions and judgments of the body E-moting E-moting with others Emotional inclinations Constructionist Situatedness The impact of technology Technological tuning Mediated affective engagement PART II Chapter 5 The “Eating Disorder-prone” Style of Personality Co-perceiving the Self and Other Disorders <ol> <li>Anorexia nervosa</li> </ol> <ol type="1" start="2"> <li>Bulimia Nervosa</li> <li>Binge Eating Disorder.</li> <li>Disorders connected to male body shape.</li> <li>Behavioural addictions (compulsive buying, pathological gambling, kleptomania, Internet addiction, impulsive-compulsive sexual behaviour, pyromania).</li> </ol> Chapter 6 The Obsessive-Compulsive-Prone Style of Personality <ol type="1"> <li>Michael Kohlhaas</li> <li>Mr Prokharchin.</li> </ol> Disorders Thematic personality disorders Scrupulousness Hoarding Logical complacency OCD Disorders Case vignettes:Uncertainty about One’s Own Thoughts Uncertainty about One’s Actions and their Consequences Uncertainty of the Sense of Self Chapter 7 Personalities Prone to Hypochondria-Hysteria “The Loser” Disorders Hysteria. Case Vignette The Neuroscientific perspective Case Vignette The neural substratum Hypochondria Case Vignette Chapter 8 The Phobia-Prone Style of Personality Interoceptive awareness and emotional experience Zuccarello distinguished melodist Case vignette Disorders The distortion of personal stability The fear of fear What is the origin of distorted beliefs? Agoraphobia Case vignettes:Specific phobia? Spontaneous panic? Chapter 9 The Depression-Prone Style of Personality The margins of the problem Enduring dispositions The Depressive-Prone Style of Personality Disorders Case vignette Is depression an adaptation? Message in a bottle References

Autorenportrait

Giampiero Arciero is Director of the Institute of Constructivist Psychology and Psychotherapy of Rome (IPRA) and works as a Consultant at the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Geneva. He also collaborates with the Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, University of Bari, Italy. His publications include Experience,Explanation, and the Quest for Coherence (2000) in Neimeyer A.R., Raskin D.J. (Eds), Constructions of Disorder. Identity, Personality and Emotional Regulation (2004) in Freeman, A., Mahoney, M. J., & DeVito, P. (Eds.). Cognition and psychotherapy (2nd ed.). He is the author of Studi e dialoghi sull’identità personale (2002),Estudios y Dialogos sobre la identidad personal (2 edition)(2005),Sulle Tracce di Se’(2006) Tras las huellas de sí mismo (2009). Guido Bondolfi is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and a mindfulness instructor (MBCT and MBSR). He is “Chargé de Cours” at the Medical School of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where he teaches Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. As head of a “Secteur” and of a specialized programme for depressive disorders at the Department of Psychiatry of the Geneva University Hospitals, Guido Bondolfi’s research interests include cognitive psychotherapy, mood disorders and pathological gambling. He is the author of more than fifty peer reviewed publications and of a book: “Traitement intégré de la dépression : de la résistance à la prévention de la rechute” (2004).

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Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles is an interdisciplinary study that describes a new perspective on psychopathology based on the search for the source of personal meaning and identity. The opening section develops a first-person approach to selfhood and personal identity, discussing relevant topics in personality and social psychology, developmental psychology, psychology of emotions and neuroscience. The second part presents five different personality styles distinguished on the basis of their emotional inclinations: Eating Disorder-prone, Obsessive-Compulsive prone, personalities prone to Hypochondria-Hysteria, Phobia–prone and Depression-prone. The classification based on affectivity makes it possible to illustrate the continuity between the study of personality and that of psychopathology. One distinctive feature of this extraordinary book is a discussion of recently published evidence that functional magnetic resonance imaging can show how brain activity may be related to personality styles. Praise for Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles: “Arciero and Bondolfi show in fine detail how the sense of self emerges in first- and second-person experiences, forming a dynamic, emotive and narrative identity; they then brilliantly demonstrate how this self-identity gets distorted and disrupted in the pathologies that directly undermine this process. This is a landmark study that brings together materials from multiple disciplines. Their analysis provides a clear account of how our existential being-in-the-world is modulated by narrative practices. They show how the ongoing construction of personality delineated by the various emotional tendencies that are sedimented in the individual’s life comes to be reflected in personal narrative. Arciero and Bondolfi continuously make insightful connections between research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and emotion studies and then carry these basic insights into the realm of psychiatry. The psychiatric analyses offered here are thus enriched by clinical vignettes and enlightened by the integration of philosophical (especially phenomenological and hermeneutical), psychological, neuroscientific, and literary dimensions”. Shaun Gallagher, Professorof Philosophy, University of Central Florida “Arciero and Bondolfi have written a timely, thought-provoking and challenging book, providing the reader with a refreshingly new account of Self-identity and its disorders. A cogent and novel contribution to psychiatric thought that wonderfully integrates philosophy, psychopathology and contemporary neuroscience. This book will push psychiatry in new directions. A must read!.” Vittorio Gallese, Professor of Human Physiology, University of Parma ,Italy “Selfhood, Identity, and Personality Styles is a highly ambitious work of theoretical synthesis: neuroscience, phenomenology, and social constructionism are joined together with the study of both literature and psychopathology. Arciero and Bondolfi offer sophisticated and intriguing discussions not only of mirror neurons and developmental psychology, but also of ideas from Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, of characters from Dostoevsky, Kleist, and Pessoa, and of patients from clinical practice. A ground-breaking, first attempt to show the relevance of the interdisciplinary study of basic self-experience for our understanding of character styles and personality disorders.” Louis A. Sass, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University