Starting from the recognition of the significant ethical importance, on an individual and collective level, of the problem of self-regulation in the contemporary world, I attempted to carry out a genealogical analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder, with a specific focus on the question of impulsiveness and of the relationship with limits. Looking at the relations between the philosophical, psychological-clinical, educational and political dimensions, and examining how the possibility of constructing an autonomous subjectivity has become a central problem with the onset of modernity, I reconstructed a critical history of the borderline disorder as a subject of psychological and psychiatric discourse, as a means to reflect epistemologically upon this field of knowledge and on the historical articulations of psychological distress and of its treatment. I divided my historical inquiry into three parts, corresponding to the main forms that BPD, a hard to define clinical entity always on the threshold of diagnostic impossibility, took on over time. Firstly, I analysed moral insanity during the course of the 1800s (also using a research on the confinement and psychiatrisation of insane people/moral idiots between 1873 and 1939 in Venice’s former mental hospitals, carried out through a qualitative analysis of some clinical case histories found in the archives of the San Servolo and San Clemente institutions). Secondly, I considered the borderline syndrome between the 1930s and 1970s. Psychoanalytic theories are the main reference for this period, during which the borderline label will come eventually to designate a personality organisation, a stably unstable identity structure. Thirdly, I examined the Borderline Personality Disorder from the 1980s, when some temperamental dimensions of a biochemical origin such as impulsiveness became central in this diagnostic category.

(2011). Genealogia del disturbo borderline come problematizzazione dell'autonomia nel mondo contemporaneo. Un tentativo di analisi della medicalizzazione delle condotte impulsive e dei problemi di autorolazione nelle odierne "istituzioni del sè". (Tesi di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2011).

Genealogia del disturbo borderline come problematizzazione dell'autonomia nel mondo contemporaneo. Un tentativo di analisi della medicalizzazione delle condotte impulsive e dei problemi di autorolazione nelle odierne "istituzioni del sè"

BELLA, ANDREE'
2011

Abstract

Starting from the recognition of the significant ethical importance, on an individual and collective level, of the problem of self-regulation in the contemporary world, I attempted to carry out a genealogical analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder, with a specific focus on the question of impulsiveness and of the relationship with limits. Looking at the relations between the philosophical, psychological-clinical, educational and political dimensions, and examining how the possibility of constructing an autonomous subjectivity has become a central problem with the onset of modernity, I reconstructed a critical history of the borderline disorder as a subject of psychological and psychiatric discourse, as a means to reflect epistemologically upon this field of knowledge and on the historical articulations of psychological distress and of its treatment. I divided my historical inquiry into three parts, corresponding to the main forms that BPD, a hard to define clinical entity always on the threshold of diagnostic impossibility, took on over time. Firstly, I analysed moral insanity during the course of the 1800s (also using a research on the confinement and psychiatrisation of insane people/moral idiots between 1873 and 1939 in Venice’s former mental hospitals, carried out through a qualitative analysis of some clinical case histories found in the archives of the San Servolo and San Clemente institutions). Secondly, I considered the borderline syndrome between the 1930s and 1970s. Psychoanalytic theories are the main reference for this period, during which the borderline label will come eventually to designate a personality organisation, a stably unstable identity structure. Thirdly, I examined the Borderline Personality Disorder from the 1980s, when some temperamental dimensions of a biochemical origin such as impulsiveness became central in this diagnostic category.
MADERA, ROMANO
Disturbo borderline di personalità, impulsività, autoregolazione,follia morale, storia della psichiatria, medicalizzazione
M-FIL/03 - FILOSOFIA MORALE
Italian
18-gen-2011
Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umane
SCIENZE DELLA FORMAZIONE E DELLA COMUNICAZIONE - 47R
22
2008/2009
open
(2011). Genealogia del disturbo borderline come problematizzazione dell'autonomia nel mondo contemporaneo. Un tentativo di analisi della medicalizzazione delle condotte impulsive e dei problemi di autorolazione nelle odierne "istituzioni del sè". (Tesi di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2011).
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