Identity development can be described as a continuum with an identity diffusion (incoherent self-image, self-fragmentation) at one end and an integrated personal identity at the other end [ 21].
This tragic fragmentation of self can lead to behaviour that conflicts with one's deepest principles.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The fragmentation of self — the distance between me and my idea of me and what I'm willing to tell you about me and what you think I'm telling you about me, and all the subtleties that are lost in translation — is a postmodern concept, a sort of earnest and existential game of telephone.
The experience of being caught in the confluence of multiple cultures leads to a kind of multiplicity or fragmentation of self.
This study has identified that a central concept to pregnant women's diet and physical activity beliefs during pregnancy is the fragmentation of self into 'me' and 'my pregnancy'.
"A kind of Christian convergence was the defining feature of this era," Douthat asserts, and he cites the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Fulton Sheen and Martin Luther King Jr. as evidence that "the divided houses of American Christendom didn't just grow, they grew closer together, re-engaged with one another after decades of fragmentation and self-segregation".
One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest.
One... leads to fragmentation and self-interest... a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others... one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility..
Thus, the species is suitable for investigating effects of population fragmentation on selfing rates and reproductive success.
The healthcare system, traditionally predominated by a re-active approach and consisting of highly specialized echelons, needs to be transformed to realize patient-centered chronic care in which problems like fragmentation, restricted self-management, and guideline non-adherence are limited [ 4, 5].
There are those sufferers of personality or mental disorders who report feeling a loss or a fragmentation of the self and I imagine this must be horrifying.
