[Buddha-l] Personality disorders

[Franz Metcalf]

Stefan et al.,

> I feel that my question with regard to
> a 'working self' is still unanswered.

Your question of the "working self" is still unanswered because  
Buddhists have been failing to fully answer it for 2500 years! But  
that's just because it's such a good question. One might say it is THE  
question.

One (to me extremely appealing) alternative to the Engler pre- 
self>>self>>no-self model is Joseph Bobrow's model that we are  
constantly creating and losing our selves. We might think of it as  
more a Mahayana model of the self where Engler's model is Theravada.  
(Though I'm in print characterizing Engler's model as also a Hindu one  
in some respects.) I've not read Bobrow's new book, but you can find a  
bit of his model in his shorter writings. All his publications  
including the book are listed here <http://deepstreams.org/joseph_bobrows_writings 
 >.

Cheers,

Franz