Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

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

1. Non-linear Systems
2. Construction of the Self

The Organization of living systems and Constructivism of the Self.

1. The Organization of living systems
2. Constructivism of the Self

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)

1. Returning to the world
2. The question who (Die Werfrage)

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

1. Anorexia nervosa

2. Bulimia Nervosa
3. Binge Eating Disorder.
4. Disorders connected to male body shape.
5. Behavioural addictions (compulsive buying, pathological gambling, kleptomania, Internet addiction, impulsive-compulsive sexual behaviour, pyromania).

Chapter 6

The Obsessive-Compulsive-Prone Style of Personality

1. Michael Kohlhaas
2. Mr Prokharchin.

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