On Friday I presented the research of our Evolution and Personality Lab in Pula. The Mind & Brain Congress is a congress of psychiatry and neurology that takes place every year in the Croatian city. This year one of the invited symposiums was on “Personality development and pathology in an evolutionary perspective”. Martin Brüne (Ruhr-University Bochum), Darko Marčinko (Zaghreb University) and I discussed the research of our teams in this area. In short, it was like having our own Evolution and Personality Lab in Pula!
In my presentation I presented the evolutionarily informed conceptualization model that we have been using for a few years and the evidence collected so far. You can see the slides in the video.
First, I motivated the clinical utility of an evolutionarily informed model to personality pathology. Second, I presented data on the inter-reter reliabily, perceived utility and cross-cultural validity of the model. Third, I summarized data on treatment based on this model, namely Evolutionary Systems Therapy.