Personality Disorders as Developmental Adaptations: The Logic Behind the Pathology
Personality disorders as intelligent adaptations that outlived their original contexts—maladaptive now, but once essential solutions
Identity Diffusion: When the Self Never Consolidates
How early developmental failures prevent identity synthesis, leaving personality structure permanently fragmented
Object Relations and Personality Structure: How Early Attachments Become Internal Templates
The relationships that shaped you before you could speak continue to organize every relationship you have today.
The False Self System: Adaptation That Becomes Prison
How protective compliance calcifies into a personality structure that eclipses authentic experience entirely
The Architecture of Self: How Identity Becomes Structure Rather Than Story
Why identity stops being a story you tell and becomes the structure through which you experience everything
Borderline Organization: The Structural Level Below Neurosis
Why borderline organization represents a stable structural level between neurosis and psychosis, not just a collection of symptoms
The Splitting Mind: Why Some Personalities Cannot Integrate Contradictions
How early developmental failures create personality structures incapable of holding contradictory representations—and what therapeutic repair requires
The Conscience Development: From External Control to Internal Structure
How prohibition and aspiration integrate in moral structure—and what happens when conscience development goes wrong
Affect Regulation Architecture: How Personality Organizes Emotional Experience
Understanding why some personalities contain emotion while others overflow or constrict—and what developmental processes create these fundamental differences.
Why Personality Traits Predict Less Than We Think: The Situation-Person Dance
How stable if-then patterns explain why you feel consistent despite behaving differently across situations, revealing personality's hidden architecture.
Temperament to Personality: Mapping the Transformation of Biological Givens
How infant reactivity becomes adult personality through the intricate dance of biological disposition and environmental transaction across development.
Projective Identification: When Inner Worlds Colonize Outer Relationships
Understanding how unbearable emotions escape the self and take up residence in others reveals the hidden architecture of troubled relationships.
Attachment Classification and Adult Personality: Reading History in Current Patterns
Your attachment history doesn't hide in childhood memories—it reveals itself in how coherently you can talk about them right now.
The Development of Mentalization: How We Learn to Read Minds Including Our Own
How early relational experiences create—or disrupt—our fundamental capacity to understand minds, including our own