ABSTRACT
Isaiah Berlin considers the "strength of the personality" as central to personal autonomy. That view is not far removed from the idea of integration. He implies something we might call "integrity". The internal cohesive personality that contains a stable and consistent core of himself and has a flexible independence of mind is, in ordinary language, regarded as having integrity. Principle of integration: Those practices are ethically beneficent that aim to minimize the distortions of identity and interpersonal spreading, and those are unethical that aim to fragment the personality and to enhance the interpersonal spreading. The notion of integration can also dissolve the confusion over "whose autonomy" and "whose paternalism" is in play when a patient has drawn an analyst into being a certain aspect of his own decision-making function. If the mind is divided within itself, integration makes clear an ethical approach as the one to enhance the re-integration rather than choosing between the unintegrated parts.
