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Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993
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Trauma as a Precursor to the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder
Western Undergraduate Psychology Journal, 2019
This paper outlines the relationship between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the traumatic experiences one may face in their life. In doing so, the paper assesses the relationship between trauma and each of the core characteristics of BPD: disturbed emotion and cognition, behaviour dysregulation, and interpersonal turmoil. The goal of this paper is to present a thorough review of the literature detailing how traumatic experiences such as neglect, assault, and abuse, may act as a trigger, activating a predisposition towards the development of BPD.
Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 2015
This goal of this review was to explore empirical research examining the question of whether borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disorder of "personality" or a disorder arising out of experiences of childhood trauma. The review highlighted the complexities in the relationship between childhood disorder (CT) and BPD and identified important implications for research and practice. Although relationships between specific trauma types and outcomes in adulthood are inconsistent, overall associations between CT and the development of BPD are strong and consistently identified. Research exploring the specific mechanisms through which CT may be related to the development of BPD in adulthood is beginning to untangle the complex web of interrelated factors such as heritable personality traits, affect regulation and dissociation, and trauma symptoms as mediators in the relationship between CT and BPD. Our strongest recommendation is for future researchers to further explore transdiagnostic factors such as the self capacity of affect regulation to further disentangle the complex pathways between CT, inherited personality traits, and the development of all forms of traumatogenic psychopathologies in adulthood.
Academia Letters, 2021
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Journal of Personality Disorders, 2012
The first objective of this study was to assess the rates of adult experiences of verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse reported by borderline patients and axis II comparison subjects over ten years of prospective follow-up. The second objective was to determine time-to-cessation, recurrence, and new onset of each type of abuse. The Abuse History Interview was administered to 290 borderline patients and 72 axis II comparison subjects at baseline. The AHI Follow-up Version was administered at five contiguous follow-up waves. Over ten years of follow-up, the rates of all four types of abuse declined significantly for borderline patients. For borderline patients, rates of cessation were high for all types of abuse (>90%). However, recurrences and new onsets of verbal and emotional abuse were relatively common (>60%). Contrastingly, they were relatively uncommon for physical and sexual abuse (<30%), suggesting that verbal and emotional abuse represent more stable forms of abuse.
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Journal of personality disorders, 2015
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Clinical child psychology and psychiatry, 2017
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