Summary: Relational vulnerability is a continuous epigenetic dimension of interpersonal psychopathology (“disorders of personality”) manifesting in four main endophenotypic clusters based on (i) disordered HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION (High / Low) and (ii) maladaptive RELATEDNESS (High / Low). Currently used categories (diagnoses) of “personality disorders” correspond to one of the four clusters…
Fundamentally, psychopathology is a sequence of events within and across all four registers of an I-STATE. In time, a unique internal / interpersonal configuration (position, state) develops, aspects of which are perceived (by one and others) as a maladaptive dysregulation (dis-order, impairment) of a “normal” (typical, expected) or desired way…
In the society, one’s being is viewed from at least three perspectives: (i) subjective – how one experiences and represents oneself; (ii) interpersonal – how one is represented in the experience of others and (iii) public – how one is represented in and marked by the official public records, including…
Prototypical configurations of the four registers correspond to unique patterns (styles) of being and experiencing (representing) oneself and others (“identity”, “personality”) . For instance: The six prototypical [Lxxx] configurations (LBEP, LBPE, LEBP, LEPB, LPBE, LPEB) correspond to a style (pattern) focused on location, including (i) tangible proximal events (entities, things)…
Codes of uniqueness and representation The four registers of UNIQUENESS – LOCATION, BODY, EXPERIENCE and PERSON anchor and contextualize being and being human in a “reality” of what it means to “exist”, both in each moment of “here and now” and throughout the space-time (of the post Big Bang…
‘Disorders of personality” “Personality” is a neurocognitive aspect of UNIQUENESS. It underlies and regulates unique features of one’s biophysicality, cognitions, emotionality and behavior across multiple contexts and locations. “Personality Disorder” is an epigenetic neurocognitive dysregulation of personality endophenotype manifested in discrete configurations (syndromes) of phenotypic signs and experienced symptoms…
Psychopathology is (i) an expression and (ii) a study of maladaptive dysregulation (dis-order, impairment) of one’s BODY (biophysical functions, appearance, behavior) and EXPERIENCE (sensations, affects, awareness, ideation), in a PERSON among others, across multiple LOCATIONs. It is (i) subjectively experienced and represented in one’s consciousness as symptoms; (ii) observed and…
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. (L. Wittgenstein) Tractatus notwithstanding, reality (world) is neither things nor facts but rather the totality of events and relations. Event is any change in the physical world. Relation is how events interact. Three types of events are pertinent to the…
The PERSON is how one “exists”, outside of one’s body, in the consciousness of others. It is the totality of markers (names, labels, signifiers, attributes, descriptors, signs) used to refer (point) to, denote and describe a particular individual and her / his life. It is how one is (i) recognized,…
LOCATION is a progression of points in space-time marked by a trajectory of its coordinates. It is a spatiotemporal representation (memory, map, record) of all specific locations of one’s body since its conception to the present moment. Human beings have evolved to experience and construe LOCATION relative to the surface…