Integration of the personality

This is the process by which all the systems of response that represent an individual's characteristic adjustments to his various environments are formed or coordinated into a consistent and coherent totality. It is the consistency with which diverse individual processes or actions, and in particular the individual's decisions, prove effective in functional dependence on each other.

Integration of the personality may also mean the process of formation of the whole personality through individual effort at personal development, possibly with psychotherapeutic assistance. In this sense it is analogous to mental health or maturity and the necessary grounding for individuation.

According to one definition used by Jung, integration may imply a diagnosis of the psychological situation of an individual, including examination of conscious-unconscious interaction, masculine and feminine components of personality, the various opposites, relation of the ego to the shadow and movement between function and attitudes of consciousness.

[Disintegration]

is the disorganization of the psychic processes leading to inconsistencies and a general weakening of the effect of the volition over thinking, feeling and acting.