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Yet You May See the Meaning of Within: The Role of Identity Concerns and the Self in Psychopathology

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Concerns and processes regarding one’s identity and “self” are arguably a central component of existential concerns within humankind. This chapter briefly introduces self-related constructs before looking at how they have been applied to specific domains of psychopathology in recent empirical and theoretical works. First, it has been argued that self-construct is a central concern driving obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with those with obsessions having an ambivalent or feared view of self. Second, within the OCD-related disorder of hoarding disorder, it has been argued that perceptions of self and others intertwined with the meaning of objects contribute to the incredible challenge that those with the disorder have in discarding objects. Finally, within depression and eating disorders, the focus has recently been shone on social identity processes, whereby one’s sense of self is dynamic and influenced by one’s contemporaneous self-categorisation as a group member. In depression, a loss of social identity has been argued to trigger pathology, whereas in eating disorders, it has been argued that social identification with particular groups may increase the risk of pathology.

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Bouguettaya, A., Jaeger, T., Moulding, R. (2022). Yet You May See the Meaning of Within: The Role of Identity Concerns and the Self in Psychopathology. In: Menzies, R.G., Menzies, R.E., Dingle, G.A. (eds) Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06932-1_10

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