- UNIQUENESS and transformations of psychopathologySuffering of body-consciousness is universal, Caused by desire for existence / nonexistence of “I” and “self”, Transcendence of suffering is possible, On the path of true Practice-Insight-Wisdom-Compassion. (Siddhartha Gautama) [1] Transformations of psychopathology Psychopathology is a facet of uniqueness and, historically, has often been conceptualized as a “biopsychosocial” problem (disorder) involving one’s (i) biophysicality…
- Ipsocentricity (2023) (“self-centeredness”, “narcissism”)In general, ipsocentricity refers to one’s focus on one’s own uniqueness where one is both the “subject” and the “object” of one’s own activity. Ipsocentric i-states include (i) ipsocentric consciousness and (ii) ipsocentric acts – both focused predominantly on the four Registers of one’s own uniqueness. Ipsocentric consciousness refers to one’s consciousness (sensations, awareness, ideation)…
- Uniqueness and Psychopathology – Part IV (disruption, relevance, participation and dis-association)Psychopathology is an aspect of uniqueness (p-i-state) which is perceived (experienced) by one and / or others as a breakdown (disruption, failure) of a natural (adaptive, healthy, normal) i-state within the here-and-now of one’s location and attributed to a (known) mental disorder (syndrome, illness). For any i-state (event) to be considered a symptom, sign or…
- Uniqueness and psychopathology – Part III (symptoms, signs, markers and contributing factors)The physical world (universe) does not get “ill” or have “symptoms”, it is normal (“healthy”) as it is. Life, however, with survival, adaptation and learning (memory) at its core, brings in the possibility and the inevitability of dysfunction, illness (disorder) and demise (death). Physical disorders (illness, dysfunction) are part of life and death. Psychopathology, an…
- Personality, the Self and the I“Personality”, the “Self “and the “I” are three distinct aspects of one’s UNIQUENESS. “PERSONALITY” is a neurocognitive endophenotype embedded in one’s body and the brain, the “SELF” is an aggregated representation of oneself (image, schema, narrative, identity) encoded in one’s memory and the “I” is one’s awareness (sensory representation) of oneself in the present moment…