Narrative Identity and Personality Disorder: an Empirical and Conceptual Review
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PERSONALITY DISORDERS (K BERTSCH, SECTION EDITOR)
Narrative Identity and Personality Disorder: an Empirical and Conceptual Review Majse Lind 1 & Jonathan M. Adler 2 & Lee Anna Clark 3 Accepted: 9 September 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Purpose of Review Identity is one of the key domains that is disturbed in people manifesting personality disorder (PD). Within the field of personality psychology, there is a robust approach to studying identity focused on narrative identity which has been largely overlooked in studying PD. In this paper, a systematic review was conducted of studies published in the past decade that focused on how individuals manifesting personality pathology craft their narrative identity. Recent Findings This review revealed disturbances related to several motivational/affective themes (e.g., negative valence/ valence shifts and thwarted themes of agency and communion), autobiographical reasoning (negative self-inferences), and structural elements (e.g., low coherence and fewer life script events) within the narrative identity of people who manifest PD. Summary Narrative identity is disturbed in people experiencing personality pathology and may have crucial implications for enhancing our conceptual understanding of PD and for PD interventions. This review also points to several research limitations and gaps that we encourage the field to pursue in the future. Keywords Narrative identity . Life story . Personality disorder . Personality disorder features
Introduction
Lee Anna Clark [email protected]
have the common denominator of long-lasting patterns of unhealthy and inflexible “cognition, emotional experience, emotional expression, and behavior” [1].1 A central area of dysfunction in PD relates to identity. Within the field of personality psychology, one common operationalization of identity is as a narrative [5], the dynamic and evolving story people construct about their personal pasts, presents, and futures. Scholars refer to this integrative life story as narrative identity and have established best practices for its operationalization [6]. Narrative identity is typically elicited using The Life Story Interview [7], a semi-structured interview that asks participants to describe major chapters in their lives, recount particular key scenes in great detail (for example, high points, low points, and turning points), and discuss their values and goals. Even when research has not employed the full Life Story Interview, narrative prompts are typically based on the questions taken from this protocol [6]. Participants’ responses are transcribed and examined for a variety of narrative variables,
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, McCarty C, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Personality disorder (PD) reflects long-standing disturbances within multiple domains of individuals’ experience and understanding of themselves, and difficulties in engaging adaptively with others. The multitudinous manifestations of PD
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