Role–Subpersonality Conflict: A Cognitive-Neuroemotional Model of Intrapersonal Fragmentation

This theoretical paper presents an expanded and multilayered model called the "Psychology ofInternal Worlds"-an original, integrative concept aimed at a deep understanding of intrapersonalconflicts emerging between socially defined roles and autonomous subpersonalities. In contrast toprior models of multiple selfhood, such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychosynthesis, andego-state therapy, this theory uniquely integrates the socially constructed concept of roles withneuropsychologically structured subpersonalities. The latter are viewed as relatively stableconfigurations with their own cognitive logic, emotional memory, sensory sensitivity, and behavioralpatterns. This integration allows intrapsychic conflict to be analyzed not only through subjectiveexperience but also in terms of functional neurodynamics and sociocultural adaptation. The modelproposes that every role activates a specific subpersonality, through which perception, evaluation,behavior, and self-awareness are shaped. This opens new paths for precise clinical case analysisand the development of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies based on identifying mismatchesbetween roles and subpersonalities and their related neuropsychological correlates.