Abstract
Previous theories of personality have introduced the concepts of ego states, complexes, subsystems, subpersonalities, and subselves. A series of postulates and corollaries are proposed in the present paper that form the skeleton of a formal theory of personality based on the concept of subselves. Structural, developmental, psychopathological, and psychotherapeutic implications are discussed.
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“membership in recognizable social group... personal characteristics ...[and] attributes of personality shared with a large number of other people” (Deaux 1991, p. 78). Examples are professor, spouse, friend, woman, Roman Catholic, Hispanic, among others.
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I should like to note my indebtedness to my teachers, Abraham Maslow and George Kelly, and to Andras Angyal of whom Abraham Maslow spoke highly but whom I never met.
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Lester, D. A Subself Theory of Personality. Curr Psychol 26, 1–15 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-007-9002-x
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