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The core of radical post-rationalist constructivism is the exploration of the self and of its identity and continuity processes. The model has a vision of the individual as an autonomous complex system builder of meanings, generating a feeling of continuity and unity central to the maintenance of a stable identity. The structure of the identity is the organization of personal meaning (OPS), that is, the emergence of an organizing process expressed by the primeval emotional core and the creation of a personological structure in which each element is related to all the others. An emotional disorder represents the attempt to maintain this feeling of continuity and unity of identity. Case formulation in post-rationalist constructivism is the result of a complex process of identification of the patient’s OPS that occurs through assessing, underlining and construing in their complexity those primarily emotional elements that are at the basis of the feeling of unity and continuity of identity.
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Dodet, M. (2021). The Case Formulation in the Post-Rationalist Constructivist Model: Commentary on Chapter “Strengths and Limitations of Case Formulation in Constructivist Cognitive Behavioral Therapies”. In: Ruggiero, G.M., Caselli, G., Sassaroli, S. (eds) CBT Case Formulation as Therapeutic Process. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63587-9_19
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