TY - JOUR
T1 - The psychiatric significance of the personal self
AU - Sadler, John Z.
N1 - Funding Information:
John Z. Sadler, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Sciences, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. This work was supported in part by the Spunk Fund and the Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Sadler thanks Bill Fulford, Joel Feiner, James Phillips, and Larry Thornton for their advice. Address correspondence to John Z. Sadler, MD, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390–9070. E–mail: John.Sadler@UTSouthwestern.edu.
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - Drawing upon literature reviews in psychiatry, the social sciences, and philosophy, this article defines the concept of the "personal self" and briefly describes its importance to the following areas of psychiatry: (1) mental illness, (2) psychiatric ethics, (3) diagnosis, (4) the clinician, (5) clinical research, (6) psychiatric pluralism, and (7) the goals of psychiatric treatment. The personal self is a Western commonsense concept which is characterized by five aspects: agency, identity, trajectory, history, and perspective. Because of the intimate and often ambiguous relationship between the personal self and mental illness, the personal self has considerable psychiatric significance in moral, professional, research, and existential realms.
AB - Drawing upon literature reviews in psychiatry, the social sciences, and philosophy, this article defines the concept of the "personal self" and briefly describes its importance to the following areas of psychiatry: (1) mental illness, (2) psychiatric ethics, (3) diagnosis, (4) the clinician, (5) clinical research, (6) psychiatric pluralism, and (7) the goals of psychiatric treatment. The personal self is a Western commonsense concept which is characterized by five aspects: agency, identity, trajectory, history, and perspective. Because of the intimate and often ambiguous relationship between the personal self and mental illness, the personal self has considerable psychiatric significance in moral, professional, research, and existential realms.
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U2 - 10.1521/psyc.2007.70.2.113
DO - 10.1521/psyc.2007.70.2.113
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17661538
AN - SCOPUS:34547569667
SN - 0033-2747
VL - 70
SP - 113
EP - 129
JO - Psychiatry
JF - Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -