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Self and identity in borderline personality disorder: Agency and mental time travel

Self and identity in borderline personality disorder: Agency and mental time travel

J Eval Clin Pract. 2017 Oct; 23(5): 1020–1028. Published online 2017 May 24. doi:  10.1111/jep.12769 PMCID: PMC5655722 PMID: 28544126 Natalie Gold, PhD, Senior Research Fellow 1 and Michalis Kyratsous, MBBS MRCPsych, MD(Res) student, ST4‐6 in General Adult Psychiatry 2 , 3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract We consider how conceptions of the self and identity from the philosophical literature can help us…

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Self and identity in borderline personality disorder: Agency and mental time travel

Self and identity in borderline personality disorder: Agency and mental time travel

Natalie Gold, PhD, Senior Research Fellow 1 and Michalis Kyratsous, MBBS MRCPsych, MD(Res) student, ST4‐6 in General Adult Psychiatry 2 , 3 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract We consider how conceptions of the self and identity from the philosophical literature can help us to understand identity disturbance in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We present 3 philosophical approaches: connectedness, narrative, and agency. We…

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Psychopathology of depression and mania: symptoms, phenomena and syndromes

Psychopathology of depression and mania: symptoms, phenomena and syndromes

  Fuchs Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Head of the Section Phenomenological Psychopathology, Psychiatric Department, University of Heidelberg   Summary The paper gives a phenomenological account of depression and mania in terms of body, space, temporality and intersubjectiv- ity. While the lived body is normally embedded into the world and mediates our relations to others, depression interrupts this embodied contact to the world. Local or general oppression condenses the fluid lived body to a solid, heavy “corporeal body”….

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