ABSTRACT
The study of neurology tends to involve the belief that the Self is a complex, indefinable result of living in a body, and nothing but that. Indeed, those who cannot accept anything defined by such words as "soul" or "spirit", which point to a non-physical essence, will claim evidence from such deteriorating mental conditions. In contrast to physiological damage to the Self is the bizarre phenomenon, apparently without physical foundation, and sighted more commonly in the United States than in the United Kingdom, of multiple personality disorder. Since the development of increasing complexity in object relations theory, or two-person psychology, it is accepted that no Self can develop except in the intersubjective milieu of other selves continually feeding and influencing it. This relates to the development in psychoanalysis in that many patients today are far more concerned with a search for Self than with their symptoms.
