Università Roma Tre

The course is an introduction to the philosophy of psychiatry through a focus on identity psychopathology. We will see that there is a close interrelationship between the construction of psychological well-being and identity consolidation, which reveals itself most clearly in the developmental psychopathology of attachment. For according to attachment theory, maladaptive patterns in the infant-parent relationship are the origin of an insufficient sense of identity that may give rise to mental disorders. In this course personality disorders will be considered as a paradigmatic illustration of such identity disturbances.

M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa, & A. Paternoster - The Self and its Defenses. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016.
P. Fonagy, G. Gergely, E.L. Jurist, & M. Target - Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self. New York: Other Press, 2002.
M.F. Lenzenweger & J.F. Clarkin (Eds.) - Major theories of personality disorder. New York: Guilford, 2005 (2nd ed).