The first-person, phenomenological approach to personality is little known among UK and US clinicians. The primary aim of the book is to introduce the recent development of the European constructivist methodology to a wider readership in the Anglo-Saxon world. The primary theory illustrated in the book is founded on the distinction between two modalities of constituting Selfhood, based on particular ways of developing and regulating emotions: Inward and Outward. The book will delineate a set of principles in the study of consciousness thatplace the first-person perspective at the heart of the analysis of emotional disorders. This model considers the centrality of the first-person perspectiveas a new methodology for clinicians and researchers. It integrates such an approach with psychopathology and the third-person perspective inherent in the methodologies of cognitive and affective neurosciences. Within this framework, six personality styles are differentiated. For each personality style, the origin of the subjective emotional experience, the ordering and the regulation ofthe emotional domain, and the psychopathological disorders are described. A unique aspect of the book is a discussion of recently published evidence from the authors that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to show that brain activity may be related to personality styles. The opening section of the bookpresents the theory and puts the narrative identity in context within one of the major affective events of life, the love relationship. The second part presents and discusses the six personality styles and shows how each informs the narrative process in the form of dialogues.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-51719-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 18/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés