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Is the fictive personality fiction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Terri Eynon
Terri Eynon*
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Nottingham Psychotherapy Unit, St Ann's House, 114 Thorneywood Mount, Nottingham NG3 2PZ
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Sir: Chaloner (Psychiatric Bulletin, September 1999, 23, 589–66), suggests that being moved by the death of a cultural icon that you have never met, rather than by one's own suffering, may be thought of as a ‘Active personality disturbance’; a pathological process which may be a result of ‘ego impoverishment’ or a failure of development.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 12: The Journal of Trends in Psychiatric Practice , December 1999 , pp. 750
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