Personality

“Around psychopathy, then, psychiatrists began to constitute ‘personality’ in its modern form, as at once a possession, something a person ‘has’ or displays, and object of analysis. . . . Early-twentieth-century psychiatry’s focus on the personality, adumbrated first around psychopathy, was an important means by which the discipline effected the shift from the necessarily limited psychiatry of the abnormal to a psychiatry of normality. . . The term’s turn-of-the-century usage anticipated and facilitated the discipline’s adoption of the psychiatry of adjustment, a psychiatry applicable to everyone.(Lunbeck, 68, 69).