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Psychopathology and Two Kinds of Narrative Accounts of the Self

2003; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/ppp.2004.0025

1086-3303

Tim Thornton,

Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

The self plays an important role in psycho pathology. Conditions such as dementia raise the question of how much loss of memory and awareness there can be before there is, if ever, also a loss of the self. Syndromes such as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) raise the possibility of a fragmentation of one self into a number of selves. Depersonalization disorder suggests a kind of diminution both of the sense of self and the reality of the world. Symptoms such as thought insertion suggest a different kind of fragmentation of the coherence of thought within a self.