Self Identity through the Lens of Awareness Integration Theory: Encouraging Novel Empirical Research to Uncover Molecular Neurobiological Correlates

This perspective paper addresses the multifaceted inner mechanism of self-awareness and self- identity developmental milestones as vital pathways to achieving evolutionary survival techniques, life satisfaction, and optimized psychopathology while discussing the Awareness Integration Theory as a sustainable model to assist individuals in overcoming obstacles to inadequacy in proper self-inventory needed for healthy self-development. In this paper, we espoused why AIT may offer a novel strategic approach when integrated into a self-help program, and these applied concepts and theories of self-identity principles and phases. A vital tenant herein posits that applying self-identity theory and concepts through the lens of AIT is an effective and efficient approach to becoming aware of our various self-identities and consciously generating a flexible, adaptable, and workable identity regardless of what life brings forth. As a dedicated clinical and scientific team to provide putative new clinically relevant targets incorporating AIT principles and embracing AIT's six phases to build self- identity, it fosters an effortless presentation of our identity when we are congruent and aims for integration with integrity. Based on our preliminary pharmacogenomic research and initial findings, we encourage the scientific community to confirm further or refute these Genome- Wide Association Studies (GWAS)-based deep in silico PGx analyses for both self and identity and for personality disorders in general. The article discusses different concepts of self as defined based on philosophical accounts, psychological, and cognitive as well as neuroscientific data on self and self-reference and how these multidisciplinary ideas are complementary. Finally, both philosophical and neuroscientific accounts are directly compared with each other while, at the same time, their relevance for the psychoanalysis of self and ego is pointed out.