Therapy Center for Mood and Emotional Disorders, Department of Adult Psychiatry, La Colombière, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 34090 Montpellier, France.
2 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2025
A French version of the Ontological Addiction Scale (OAS) was validated in 492 French adults with emotional or mood disorders. The scale measures ontological addiction, a dysfunctional self-concept where individuals see themselves as separate from their surroundings. The French OAS showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha: 0.89) and strong test-retest reliability, with a single-factor structure matching the original English version. A 12-item version also had good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha: 0.81). Construct validity was supported by medium to large correlations with self-esteem, shame, perfectionism, and mindfulness. The French OAS is a robust tool for assessing ontological addiction in research and clinical practice.
Third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapies have shifted focus from symptom reduction to process-based change, with self-identification as a core dimension. The Self-Identification Program (SIP) targets dysfunctional self-identification—the reification of transient mental contents as defining features of a self—by integrating mindfulness, loving/kindness and compassion, and deconstructive insight into the nature of self. SIP aligns with dimensional psychiatry and behavioral linguistics, bridging contextual behavioral science and contemplative practice. It offers a unified, process-based model of identity transformation that extends beyond mindfulness and compassion training to address how mistaken identification with an independent self becomes a source of suffering, providing a mechanistically grounded pathway for enduring change in depressive and bipolar spectrum disorders.