The Adaptive Evolutionary Post-Rationalist Approach: Epistemology and Biological Pattern of the Personality Organizations (POs)

The Personality Organizations (POs) approach allows focusing on the physiological resources provided by each subject’s PO. In fact, each PO allows the development of some specific sensory-perceptual susceptibilities, based on the fact that it appears more “permeable” and “sensitive” to the significant aspects and to the predominant environmental domains. In this way each PO develops some distinctive assessment and operational strategies, and achieves selective and specialized adaptive resources that are then honed in the course of life. The reformulation of experience can help to identify and to bring forth the potential resources and adaptive competences—inhibited at the tacit level and ignored at the explicit level—that are related to the PO of the subject undergoing therapy. On one hand, it is possible to see that there is a constancy related to the consistency of developmental processes that lead to a specific basic organizational closure (Controlling, Detached, Contextualized or Normative types); on the other hand, it is possible to observe the complex evolutionary dynamics connected with the adaptive abilities used to assimilate and to self-refer experience. POs biological patterns were investigated by our group in the last years both with functional magnetic imaging (fMI) and the response to psycho-social stress.