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Registration for the upcoming lecture by Allen Frances on the challenges and threats related to chatbots is now open. In order to register for the upcoming Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series event please use: t.co/6vqBnD4wQO

"The most sensitive musical instrument is the human soul. The next is the human voice. One must purify the soul until it begins to sound" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-k...

I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social) To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

22/22 In the Final Chapter of our volume Louise Williams presents the Three-Tiered Narrativism & shows how this framework can differentiate individuals with pathological narcissism from healthy personalities and be used for other theoretical purposes. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

21/22 In Chapter 21 @susi_ferrarello discusses the affectivity of those suffering from narcissistic traits through the lenses of passive, active & practical intentionality as expounded by Husserl. Both the narcissistic wound & “intentional blockage” are explored. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

By @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdh...

20/22 In Chapter 20 Thomas Schramme scrutinizes empathy deficits in the context of NPD and shows how might lead to interpersonal misunderstanding and persistent doubt about other people’s perspectives and about one's own social standing. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

19/22 In Chapter 19 Nancy N. Potter carries on the discussion of BPD and, in particular, subjects the criterion of emptiness to analysis. She also explores emptiness as found in other diagnoses, everyday life & cross-culturally as well as some treatment possibilities. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

18/22 In Chapter 18 Astrid Fly Oredsson & Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen analyse the “inappropriate anger criterion” of BPD and how the openness of the criterion heightens the risk of both testimonial and affective injustice. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

17/22 In Chapter 17 Grant Gillett & Armon J. Tamatea explore aversive and antagonistic personality disorder in terms of post-colonial analysis of indigenous populations or, in other words, in the context of the loss of ‘the village needed to raise a child’. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS) by @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social has recently completed its 6th edition with the 7th one to begin soon. For updates about new lectures do get in touch with [email protected] More details see: ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/...

16/22 In Chapter 16 Garson Leder & Tadeusz Zawidzki reexamine Louis Charland’s influential argument that Cluster B PDs are moral, not medical, conditions with a special focus on the role played by self-regulation in healing. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

15/22 In Chapter 15 @Castalia1981 employs the notions of dialectics (Tillich), radical acceptance (Linehan's #DBT) and radical opennes (Lynch's #RODBT) to discuss the existential and spiritual dimensions of personality disorders Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

14/22 In Chapter 14 Annemarie Köhne & Adela-Maria Isvoranu address the comorbidity of personality disorders and mental disorders without implying a latent variable perspective.Rather, they propose to understand mental states and personality traits as related systems. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

13/22 In Chapter 13 Huw Green attempts to synthesize the view of personality disorders as maladaptive clinical phenotypes with the one of responses to early life events that are understandable in the context they had arouse in. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Warsaw Uprising as seen from the point of view of a civilian... See: culture.pl/en/work/a-me...

12/22 In Chapter 12 Simon Boag evaluates the theoretical soundness of the Five Factor Model trait approach as a basis for comprehending personality pathology and proposes an alternative integrative model. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

11/22 Personality disorders, as seemingly more closely related to 'who one is' (than to a disorder 'one has') may invoke a specific kind of self-illness ambiguity. The latter topic is discussed by Roy Dings, Nina S. de Boer, Léon de Bruin & Gerrit Glas in Chapter 11. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

10/22 In Chapter 10 Colin G. DeYoung & Robert F. Krueger draw on their cybernetic dysfunction theory of psychopathology as a persistent failure to move toward one’s goals in order to to clarify the role of personality in mental disorder. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

9/22 In Chapter 9 Simone Cheli & Martin Brüne suggest that both temperamental and developmental components of personality progressively shape autopoietic processes in accordance with the theory of evolution and, especially, Life History Theory. Link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

8/22 In Chapter 8 Stefan Jerotic and Milutin Kostic undertake an in-depth examination into the application of psychopharmacology in the treatment of personality disorders with a special emphasis on the debates about using medication for personality enhancement. Link: t.co/7lgHHGtvHA

"We must ... understand how to best conceptualize psychotherapy as a practice that encompasses fact and value, art and science, the individual and the social context, and that somewhat ineffable quality that has been called practical wisdom"

7/22 In Chapter 7 Anna Sterna, Marcin Moskalewicz, Philipp Schmidt-Boddy & Thomas Fuchs shed light on phenomenological aspects of personality disorders with a special emphasis on lived temporal inflexibility of the self. Link: t.co/lVm5VNK1ub

6/22 In Chapter 6 Aidan Wright & Sienna Nielsen apply the Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory to understand the self and social impairments that define personality disorders as a group (with a particular emphasis on interpersonal experience and expression) Link: t.co/5cYodkvrY5

5/22 In Chapter 5 Angélique Cramer & Denny Borsboom discuss personality (relatively normal or dysfunctional) as the ultimate outcome of a dynamical system in which the components such as thoughts, feelings, behaviours & environment interact with one another over time. Link: t.co/tjb5t3VdSw

4/22 In Chapter 4 Mark H. Waugh discusses the personality functioning impairment dimension proper to Alternative DSM-5 and ICD-11 models in the context of contemporary psychodynamic thinking (object relations, attachment/mentalization, intersubjective, & narrative). Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

3/22 Chapter 3 by Eisuke Sakakibara t.co/aM3LEu1XxVis rooted in Mischel's interactionist criticism of personality trait theory and argues that maladaptive personality traits founded on behavioral consistency across situations might increase the risk of over-diagnosis. Link: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

2/22 Chapter 2 of the newly published volume is by Jeanne Proust and is devoted to Théodule Ribot's contribution to the science of personality disorders. His notion of "madness of doubt," in particular, is discussed and compared with traditional accounts of akrasia. Link: t.co/VpF0DTWqU2

"prayer can be understood for what it is as the soul coming out of its proud retreat, speaking in its own voice, owning its distortions, acknowledging its gratitude, and pleading its true desires" Or: @drgipps.bsky.social on prayer Link: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

1/22 (Starting from today I will be briefly summarizing the chapters of the newly published volume on personality disorders) In Chapter 1 Peter Zachar tells a fascinating and multifacted story of the notion of personality disorder in psychology and psychopathology. Link: t.co/djoAH0xuOv

An anecdote about Joseph Campbell... Source: a Facebook post by Kusala Bhikshu (in: www.facebook.com/groups/18661...)

The Concert in the Egg https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-concert-in-the-egg-1480

A chapter of mine devoted to Marsha Linehan's DBT and Thomas R. Lynch's RO-DBT read in existential and spiritual terms of Paul Tillich has just been published online by @CambridgeUP in a volume edited by Peter Zachar and truly yours... The link: bit.ly/44oLfwS

A wonderful piece by Helen De Cruz: I love her defence of philosophy as therapy! helendecruz.substack.com/p/thinking-l... On the toxicity of positive thinking, and the power of philosophy as therapy

"Woodworker Ch'ing carved a piece of wood and made a bell stand, and when it was finished, everyone who saw it marveled, for it seemed to be the work of gods or spirits. When the marquis of Lu saw it, he asked, 'What art is it you have?' Ch'ing replied... 👇👇👇

"If we are correct about the centrality of practical wisdom to the management of our social relations, people who go about cultivating and deploying their signature strengths without such wisdom may end up leaving a good deal of human wreckage in their wake. You may feel good, 👇

"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves" - Bobby Fischer

The ‘‘HOW DO I LOOK?’’ case. Much more relevant, I'd say, that most of so called "dilemmas" typical of the 20th century moral philosophy... "You are keeping your best friend company as she gets dressed to go to a wedding... 👇

After an impressive talk by Sahanika Ratnayake we're just about to complete the 6th edition of the IAPIS series with a talk by Havi Carel (@bristoluni.bsky.social‬). Please do feel invited to register: forms.gle/fzfCr5CaF6yu... and participate... @lisabortolotti.com

"The role of therapist as adviser, guide, or partner in Socratic dialogue will always be a component of psychotherapy. This much I believe to be certain. What is uncertain is what capacities and conceptualizations therapists of the future will bring to these ministrations... 👇

"Conventional conceptions of psychotherapy hold that the client's emotions are a principal focus of psychotherapy but that the client's value system should not be tampered with. Influencing the client's values, it is thought, would constitute a departure from objective and... 👇

"The history of behavior therapy provides us with an instructive example of the difficulties inherent in attempts to erect a value-free technology of behavior change. No other system of psychotherapy sought so self-consciously to establish itself as a 'pure' technology... 👇👇👇

“Remember that shoe you used to wear, the one that had the hole in the bottom? That’s what helped me the most” or the shoe-hole-focused therapy (SHFT) "Early in my career I was treating a 21-year-old man with schizophrenia...After 2 years of treatment,I needed to terminate... 👇

"Having come to behavioral treatment from psychoanalytic treatment, it was a culture shock, to say the least... Steve was down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, direct and welcoming. It was disarming that he asked me to address him by his first name; I wondered how competent he could be" 🤣🤣🤣

"For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse... 👇👇👇

"This is my last book on Buddhism. Whether any of the anecdotes, thoughts and conclusions appearing in this book are really Buddhist I couldn't say. The teaching is deep. I have scratched the surface. I hope I scratched right" @sethzuihosegall.com @femimind.bsky.social

"Kernberg and Linehan: Two Approaches to the Borderline Patient" by Charles Swenson (1989) One of the earliest (if not the earliest!) direct comparison of Otto Kernberg's TFP and Marsha Linehan's DBT @AllenFrancesMD @GoldfriedMarvin @DrGipps @MarkLRuffalo guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"I had a cousin once who studied trigonometry until his whiskers drooped, and when he had learnt it all a Groke came and ate him up. Yes, so wise he was while lying in the Groke’s stomach!" - Moominpappa's Memoirs @moomindaily.bsky.social