Talk:Personality crisis

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I will add more sources to this as well as give an explanation of what personality crisis is. To begin there was only a few words on the page and it was very minimal.

Personalty crisis can also be called: Existential crisis is a high anxiety time in a persons life where the question of "Who am I?"is of high concern. Identity crisis is defined by Erik Erikson as a period of insecurity in one's life usually around a big milestone such as: teenage years, adulthood or retirement. Midlife crisis is characterized by the same insecurity as personality crisis, existential crisis, and identity crisis, however occurs more often in the later years life. The midlife crisis usually occurs between the ages of 40 and 59.

All of these can be characterized by a borderline personality disorder. This is when a person expresses uncertainty on how they see themselves and their role in the world.

Some signs and symptoms may include: A pattern of intense and unstable relationships, cutting off relationships, distorted self-image, feelings of emptiness, feelings of dissociation.

Identity statuses

Identity achievement which is when an individual has tried out different identities and has made a commitment to one. Moratorium which is when an individual is in the process of trying out different identities but has not picked one to commit to. Foreclosure which is when an individual has made a commitment to an identity without exploring other options. Identity diffusion is when an individual does not have an identity crisis or commitment.

• Andrews, Mary (April 2016). "The existential crisis". Behavioral Development Bulletin. 21 (1): 104–109. doi:10.1037/bdb0000014.</ref>
• Andrews, Mary (April 2016). "The existential crisis". Behavioral Development Bulletin. 21 (1): 104–109. doi:10.1037/bdb0000014.</ref>
• Lachman, Margie E.; Teshale, Salom; Agrigoroaei, Stefan (14 May 2014). "Midlife as a pivotal period in the life course". International Journal of Behavioral Development. 39 (1): 20–31. doi:10.1177/0165025414533223.</ref>
• "NIMH » Borderline Personality Disorder". www.nimh.nih.gov. Retrieved 13 March 2018.</ref>
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References

Jocelyne.perry (talk) 15:22, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

I fixed the formatting above and redacted a spammy ref. Jytdog (talk) 23:03, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Jonah's Peer review

Lead section: Perhaps make the lead section a little clearer - is it possible to find one overarching definition of a personality crisis before listing the different types? Perhaps also including an overview of the article in the heading would be helpful.

Structure: Maybe it would be possible to split the parts of the article under different headings such as Intro, types of personality crises, pathology etc. Also, the part of the articles about identity statuses could be a little more connected to the rest of the article. Good work citing though!

Balanced coverage: Great work on this point!

Neutral content: Also on this point!

Reliable sources: I remember you mentioning that sources were hard to find. However - I wonder if it might be possible just to find a couple more.

I think the article is a really strong collection of useful information on the subject, with strong sources. However, it might benefit from a little more organization, perhaps some more sources if possible, and some more explicit definitions of some of the term used. Finally, the last section about identity statuses could be connected more explicitly to the rest of the article.

Phaedrus101 (talk) 20:59, 16 March 2018 (UTC) Jonah Sheinin (Phaedrus101)

Thank you Jonah for your insightful advice, I have added a bit more to how the identity statuses section is related to the article. I have also looked for more citations, I have included one on what personality is so that personality crisis is easier to define. Thanks, Jocelyne.perry (talk) 19:40, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Overwrite of disambiguation page

@Jocelyne.perry: thanks for your contributions, however I've had to revert back to the WP:Disambiguation page that was here before the rewrite. Disambiguation pages on Wikipedia are there to steer readers to the right article when its title is ambiguous, and are not meant to be articles in their own right.

If you think the multiple psychological terms should be grouped into a single article, then you could always start a new article with the content that you added, and link to it from this disambiguation page. If other editors agree that there should be a separate article covering the different meanings of the word in psychology, then it could become a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC article, and this disambiguation page could then be merged to Personality crisis (disambiguation).

However, please don't make these moves until consensus is gained here at the talk page supporting such a change, as it would be a potentially contentious move. The page as of your last edit made the controversial claim that all of the conditions described were simply other names for a personality crisis. This was not supported by any of the references you cited: each dealt with the individual subject (midlife crisis, identity crisis, existential crisis) separately. Thanks again, The Mighty Glen (talk) 14:55, 23 March 2018 (UTC)