Suffering 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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and…
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…
Psychopathology is an epi-ontogenetic disturbance (disorder) of associative integration manifested in impairments (symptoms, signs) of Homeostatic Regulation (activation, emotionality, neurocognitive integration) and Interpersonal Relatedness (Self-Others, intersubjectivity). Homeostatic dysregulations are associated with the biophysical (biological) aspects of psychopathology and dysregulated Relatedness underlie its interpersonal manifestations. Ipsocentricity (focus on oneself) is a…
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…