ABSTRACT
Identity disturbances are conscious experiences about self-definition that can impair one’s ability to lead a satisfying life. One of the aims of this chapter is to ask specific questions about how and why these disturbances, in varied forms, occur. That will help us to understand the differences in mental functioning between self-states containing a sense of identity disturbance and self-states that contain a conscious sense of identity coherence, as well as a range in between.
