Auburn University at Montgomery

In collaboration with the

Phenomenology and Mental Health Network at the Collaborating

Centre of Values-Based Practice, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford & Institute IDEAS Warsaw

Contributions are invited to an interdisciplinary seminar exploring the phenomenon ofpersonality disorders through the joint lenses of philosophy, clinical psychology, andemerging approaches from artificial intelligence research.

Personality has long been a central theme in both philosophical reflection andpsychological inquiry. Yet, the disturbances of personality challenge our conceptual,clinical, and experiential understanding of personality functioning. The recent shift in the diagnosis of personality disorders – from categorical classification to dimensional conceptualization – fosters a reconsideration of fundamental questions about normality

in personality functioning or directions of treatment and development. At the same time,the increasing use of computational and AI-based tools in psychology and psychiatry raises new possibilities and questions for how we conceptualize, model, and engage with disturbances of personality.

This seminar seeks to open a dialogue between disciplines, examining how livedexperience-based insights, philosophical analyses, clinical perspectives, and computational or AI-informed approaches can illuminate the nature of personality and its disorders.

We welcome submissions addressing the following themes: Phenomenological accounts of lived experience in personality disorders, including the context of computational and AI-based perspectives (e.g., modeling, language analysis, digital phenotyping, AI-assisted therapy)

Philosophical clinical approaches to selfhood, identity, and their disturbances,including existential dimensions of disordered personality

Ethical implications of understanding and treating personality disorders in the digital age – including the risk of AI induced psychosis and other potential alterations to personality functioning

Questions about optimal and maladaptive designs of AI personality
Abstracts (max. 300 words) should be submitted by October 1st to Anna Sterna

(an.sterna@gmail.com).

Information on paying the registration of 50$ and accomodations are forthcoming

Organizers:

Anna Sterna (Auburn University at Montgomery, US; Poznan University of

Medical Sciences, Poland), Marcin Moskalewicz (Institute IDEAS, Poland) & Peter

Zachar (Auburn University at Montgomery, US)