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l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 84, Number 1, 15-28, janvier 2008, troubles de la personnalité

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Author(s) : Thierry Trémine

Summary : Personality disorders: current issues. Persona and performance societyThe notion of “personality disorders” with reference to the main pathological entities was previously considered irrelevant by the manuals but certain developments – the future of psychiatry in the social arena, the passage to mental health, the DSM II, the performance and persona oriented society – have placed it back on the agenda. The biomedical model was anyway running out of steam with the failure of pharmacological dissections, the extension of the notion of spectrum and the endless comorbidities. With the notion of personality disorders, clinicians hoped to rediscover certain intimate, narrative and psychopathological aspects that had been neglected for a while. It is clear that the social arena has had an impact on the persona with its ideologies, its contradictions and the demands of biopolitics which have ushered in a new planetary subjectivity: the self. Certain dominant social vectors will be examined through borderline personalities, dependent or multiple. Finally the question of the extension of personology to the political realm will be raised and the psychiatrist’s legitimacy challenged.

Keywords : personality disorders, borderline personality, borderline state, dependent personality, self, biopolitics, performance society