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…
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…