Various traditions in mental health care, such as phenomenological, and existential and
cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, implicitly or explicitly acknowledge that a disruption of …

The concept of self is a construct. It is not a'natural kind'sited somewhere in the human brain.
The western concept of self emphasizes individualism and autonomy but this view is cultural …

The concept of the 'self'has a long history in philosophy, psychology and psychiatry but
remains a nebulous concept having been used in various ways in the literature (eg self as …

This paper reviews the historical and conceptual development of theories concerning the
nature of the self, highlighting both common themes and differences among representative …

Drawing upon literature reviews in psychiatry, the social sciences, and philosophy, this
article defines the concept of the “personal self” and briefly describes its importance to the …

Poets and philosophers have long been aware that the healthy individual's personality or
“self” is far from a monolithic structure free of inconsistencies and ambivalence, and the myth …

A review of the published literature in virtually all of the existing theoretical perspectives on
psychotherapy suggests that some concept of the “self” is increasingly thought of as a core …

ECENT R ADVANCES in the psychoanalytic understanding of narcissism have created a
great interest in the discussion of the theoretical and clinical issues related to the narcissistic …

In the emerging literature on self-management within psychiatry the role of emotion is still
hardly addressed. This article describes a conceptual framework that elucidates how …

Each culture constructs a sense of reality and a corollary model of selfhood that it assumes
to be either universal or preferable. These constructions of reality are, in turn, reflected in the …