BACKGROUND Strong evidence exists for an association between childhood trauma, particularly childhood sexual abuse, and hallucinations in schizophrenia. Hallucinations are also well-documented symptoms in people with bipolar affective disorder. AIMS To investigate the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and other childhood traumas and hallucinations in people with bipolar affective di...

I examined the relationships among childhood abuse, alexithymia, and personality disorder. Participants were 60 adults who were receiving outpatient psychotherapy. Both the participants and their therapists used the Toronto Alexithymia Scale to provide independently information concerning the client's level of alexithymia. The therapists provided information concerning DSM-III-R personality dis...

BACKGROUND Affective instability (AI), childhood trauma, and mental illness are linked, but evidence in affective disorders is limited, despite both AI and childhood trauma being associated with poorer outcomes. Aims were to compare AI levels in bipolar disorder I (BPI) and II (BPII), and major depressive disorder recurrent (MDDR), and to examine the association of AI and childhood trauma withi...

Childhood abuse is a risk factor for the development of externalizing characteristics and disorders, including antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy. However, the precise relationships between particular types of childhood maltreatment and subsequent antisocial and psychopathic traits remain unclear. Using a large sample of incarcerated adult male criminal offenders (n = 183), the cur...

Bipolar affective disorder and borderline personality disorder have the incidence of early sexual abuse but not early trauma in general, the loss. Title: Lost in fragmentation. Schema modes, childhood trauma, and anger in borderline and antisocial personality disorder. Author(s): Lobbestael, J. Type. Learn all about borderline personality disorder the serious emotional condition. American Journ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (P7 SD), borderline personality disorder (BPD) and multiple personality disorder (MPD), although categorized separately in DSM-II1-R under anxiety disorder, personality disorder, and dissociative disorder, respectively, have each been shown to be associated with early childhood abuse. Many authors have noted the importance of determining the relative impact of chi...

OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that childhood separation anxiety disorder may be associated with a heightened risk for the development of other disorders in adulthood. The authors conducted a meta-analysis to examine the relationship between childhood separation anxiety disorder and future psychopathology. METHOD PubMed, PsycINFO, and Embase were searched for studies published through December 2...