Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

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. 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 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 Provides neuroscientific evidence showing that brain activity could be related to personality styles

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).

Introduction	p. 1
	p. 5
Subjectivity and Ipseity	p. 7
From Kant to cybernetics	p. 9
The sense of self and the variety of experience	p. 11
Nonlinear systems and the construction of the self	p. 12
Nonlinear systems	p. 12
Construction of the self	p. 14
The organization of living systems and constructivism of the self	p. 16
The organization of living systems	p. 17
Constructivism of the self	p. 18
Robert's self from a systemic perspective	p. 21
The continuity of the sense of self	p. 22
The return of the world and the question 'Who?'	p. 23
Returning to the world	p. 24
The question 'Who?' (Die Werfrage)	p. 25
Finding itself in things and with others	p. 27
Reflection	p. 28
Meaning	p. 29
Inclination	p. 31
Ipseity and Language	p. 37
Traces of the other	p. 37
Shared meaning	p. 39
Finding oneself in the world: suggestions from phenomenology	p. 41
Body-to-body	p. 43
The significativity of expressions and objects	p. 46
Referential communication	p. 47
Oneself in the mirror and in the refraction of language	p. 50
Recognition of self in the mirror and in language	p. 52
Affective engagements	p. 55
Acting and speaking	p. 57
Personal Identity	p. 65
Speaking of the past	p. 67
Stories of the future	p. 68
The sense of self in the age of reason	p. 70
The modes of identity	p. 71
Inclinations	p. 75
Situatedness	p. 78
The body, pain and others	p. 79
Emotioning	p. 87
Embodied emotions and judgements of the body	p. 87
E-moting	p. 90
E-moting with others	p. 93
Emotional inclinations	p. 95
Constructionist situatedness	p. 97
The impact of technology	p. 99
Technological tuning	p. 101
Mediated affective engagement	p. 102
	p. 107
The Eating Disorder-prone Style of Personality	p. 111
Co-perceiving the self and other	p. 144
Disorders
Anorexia nervosa	p. 119
Bulimia nervosa	p. 121
Binge-eating disorder	p. 124
Disorders connected to male body shape	p. 126
Behavioural addictions (compulsive buying, pathological gambling, kleptomania, internet addiction, impulsive-compulsive sexual behaviour, pyromania)	p. 128
The Obsessive-Compulsive-prone Style of Personality	p. 133
Michael Kohlhaas	p. 134
Mr Prokharchin	p. 137
Disorders	p. 141
Thematic personality disorders	p. 144
Obsessive-compulsive disorders	p. 150
Case vignettes	p. 151
Uncertainty about one's own thoughts	p. 151
Uncertainty about one's actions and their consequences	p. 153
Uncertainty about one's sense of self	p. 154
Personalities Prone to Hypochondria-Hysteria	p. 157
The Loser	p. 159
Disorders	p. 163
Hysteria	p. 165
Hypochondria	p. 171
The Phobia-prone Style of Personality	p. 179
Interoceptive awareness and emotional experience	p. 180
'The stuffed bird'	p. 182
Zuccarello the distinguished melodist	p. 183
Case vignette	p. 186
Disorders	p. 188
The distortion of personal stability	p. 188
The fear of fear	p. 189
What is the origin of distorted beliefs?	p. 191
Agoraphobia	p. 194
Case vignettes	p. 195
Specific phobia?	p. 195
Spontaneous panic?	p. 196
The Depression-prone Style of Personality	p. 199
The margins of the problem	p. 199
Enduring dispositions	p. 203
The depression-prone style of personality	p. 204
Disorders	p. 212
Case vignette	p. 214
Is depression an adaptation?	p. 215
Message in a Bottle	p. 221
References	p. 223
Index	p. 263
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