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Konrad Banicki
@castalia1981.bsky.social
Philosophy • psychology • psychotherapy (gnōthi seauton) • psychiatry • Zen • chess • literature • Tweets in EN/PL • Views expressed, if any, are not mine
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
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"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"

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Arvo Pärt's Speech from his Musical Diaries
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October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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...
September 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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...
August 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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...
August 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
August 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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...
August 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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...
August 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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...
August 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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 konrad.banicki@uj.edu.pl

More details see: ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/...
August 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
August 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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...
August 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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...
August 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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...
August 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Warsaw Uprising as seen from the point of view of a civilian...

See: culture.pl/en/work/a-me...
August 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
August 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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...
July 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
July 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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...
July 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
July 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"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"
July 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
July 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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
July 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM