Serious, prolonged intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse is considered to be the main etiological factor in about half of the patients with borderline personality disorder in the USA. Special features of childhood interpersonal trauma leading to the development of borderline personality disorder are the seriousness of the trauma and the fact that it is sexual in nature. Serious intrafamilial chi...

The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder undoubtedly includes a heterogeneous group of disorders. In fact the diagnosis itself was developed without field trials for validation, and it is therefore not surprising that the agreement using different diagnostic tools is actually quite low (52%) (Kavoussi et al, 1990). Because of the lack of clarity in the phenomenology of the diagnosis, ne...

OBJECTIVES Although aggressive behavior has been associated with bipolar disorder (BD), it has also been linked with developmental factors and disorders frequently found to be comorbid with BD, making it unclear whether or not it represents an underlying biological disturbance intrinsic to bipolar illness. We therefore sought to identify predictors of trait aggression in a sample of adults with...

Prefrontal cortex dysfunction has been associated with a series of behavioral symptoms, such as impulsivity and affective instability, which are the defining features of several personality disorders, notably, borderline personality disorder. We report on a 27-year-old patient with schizencephaly in the right frontal lobe (cingulate cortex lesion and secondary orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction) ...

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This study aims to analyze the classification of Jaegu Song’s borderline personality disorder in webtoon Girls Wild’s. thesis will use theory behavior and change his by looking at actions, dialogues, monologues, flashbacks. analyzes what mental illness Song suffered from finding symptoms, causes, effects according theory. It shows that Wild’s, Borderline Personality Disorder. can be found someo...

background: borderline personality disorder (bpd) is a chronic condition that warrants further empirical investigation. the aim of this research was investigated prediction of bpd symptomatology relay on recent life experience. method and materials: data for the current study was collected from students of shiraz university. sample consisted of 120 undergraduate students. the ages of the sample...

Borderline Personality Disorder has received diagnostic respectability with its inclusion in DSM III. Unfortunately, its popularity has outstripped its clarity. It is receiving widespread clinical attention, yet its phenomenology remains unclear. This paper describes a study of brief psychotic and depressive symptoms in inpatients with narrowly defined Borderline Personality Disorder. Almost al...