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Personality disorders from a phenomenological perspective.

O Dörr Zengers¹

¹Unidad Doente de Psiquiatría de la Universidad de Chile, Hospital Psiquiátrico de Santiago, Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. fdoerr@entelchile.net

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Summary

The phenomenological perspective offers a more adequate approach to understanding personality disorders than categorical or dimensional systems. This method explores complex realities by examining ideal, existential, and dialectic types.

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Area of Science:

Psychiatry
Psychology
Philosophy

Background:

Current diagnostic systems for personality disorders face challenges in clearly distinguishing their existence.
Dimensional approaches, while closer to reality, are labor-intensive and assume the existence of nuanced categories.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the utility of the phenomenological perspective in understanding personality disorders.
To present the advantages of phenomenological concepts over categorical and dimensional systems.

Main Methods:

Description of Husserl's phenomenological method.
Examination of contributions from Karl Jaspers (ideal types), Ludwig Binswanger (existential types), and Wolfgang Blankenburg (dialectic typologies and polarities).

Main Results:

The phenomenological perspective provides a framework for studying the complex nature of personality and its disorders.
Introduces and defines ideal types, existential types, and dialectic typologies/polarities.

Conclusions:

The phenomenological approach, through its typologies, offers a more adequate and advantageous method for studying personality disorders compared to traditional categorical and dimensional systems.