%0 Journal Article
%T Personality disorders and modern culture
%A Francisco Mart¨ªn Murcia
%J Psychology, Society & Education
%D 2009
%I Association for the Advancement of Psychology and Education (AAPE)
%X In this work, the relation between the modern social context and personality ¡ªas an essential psychological entity¡ª and its disorders were analyzed from a dialectic perspective. Therefore, I have specified the bidirectional influences of social paradigmaticchanges in modernity ¡ªand in the case of postmodernity¡ª on the construction of personal identity. A historiography of the Self throughout the diverse eras and of the more relevant social changes was carried out, emphasizing the consequences in the development ofcharacter. The analysis includes a reflection on one of the pathologies of increasing incidence in modern societies: image disorders. In the discussion, the difficulties to organize the self in an extremely subjective world, which forces a person to self-realization asexistential task, is criticized.
%K eating disorders
%K culture
%K personality disorders
%K theoretical study
%K postmodernism
%U http://www.psye.org/articulos/Murcia.pdf