Extending Blatt’s two-polarity model of personality development to dissociative identity disorder: a theory-building case study

In this theory-building case study, we investigate Blatt’s two-polarity model of personality development according to which psychopathology is a consequence of an unbalance between the two developmental lines of interpersonal relatedness and self-definition. Anaclitic psychopathology, such as schiz...

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Main Authors: Shana Cornelis, Mattias Desmet, Reitske Meganck, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Jochem Willemsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2021-03-01
Series:Research in Psychotherapy
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Online Access:https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/index.php/rpsy/article/view/505