An Affective Syndrome in Psychopaths with Borderline Personality Disorder?

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 641-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy W. Coid
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Behavioural Disorders ◽  
Symptom Profile ◽  
Affective Symptoms ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Affective Disturbances ◽  
Considerable Complexity

A preliminary study of the repetitive mood swings of 72 female psychopaths with a DSM-III diagnosis of borderline personality disorder demonstrated considerable complexity and specificity in what has been previously considered a criterion of personality disorder. A principal-components analysis of the symptom profile for these affective disturbances revealed four factors (anxiety, anger, depression, and tension) which showed individual patterns of association with additional lifetime diagnoses of major mental illness and other personality disorders. The women also had multiple mood-related behavioural disorders, enacted with a feeling of compulsion, which appeared to relieve the original affective symptoms. It is hypothesised that these women could have a distinct affective syndrome that has not previously been described in the literature.

Borderline Personality and Victims of Incest

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Barnard ◽  
Cynthia Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Apparent Relationship ◽  
Apparent Correlation ◽  
Preliminary Study

This article explored the apparent relationship between the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and the victims' experience of incest. While a review of the related literature is discussed to identify the apparent correlation, results of a preliminary study are consistent with the association. Recognizing the limitations inherent in the study, some tentative conclusions are offered.

Efficacy of Quetiapine for Impulsivity and Affective Symptoms in Borderline Personality Disorder

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédérique Van den Eynde ◽  
Vesile Senturk ◽  
Kris Naudts ◽  
Caroline Vogels ◽  
Katrien Bernagie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Affective Symptoms

scholarly journals Induced illusory body ownership in Borderline Personality Disorder

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli S. Neustadter ◽  
Sarah K. Fineberg ◽  
Jacob Leavitt ◽  
Meagan M. Carr ◽  
Philip R. Corlett
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Rubber Hand Illusion ◽  
Body Ownership ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Affective Symptoms ◽  
Proprioceptive Drift

AbstractBackgroundOne aspect of selfhood that may have relevance for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is variation in sense of body ownership. We employed the rubber hand illusion (RHI) to manipulate sense of body ownership in BPD. We extended previous research on illusory body ownership in BPD by testing: 1) two illusion conditions: asynchronous & synchronous stimulation, 2) relationship between Illusion experience and BPD symptoms, and 3) relationship between illusion experience and maladaptive personality traits.MethodsWe measured illusion strength (questionnaire responses), proprioceptive drift (perceived shift in physical hand position), BPD symptoms (DIB-R score), and maladaptive personality traits (PID-5) in 24 BPD and 21 control participants.ResultsFor subjective illusion strength, we found a main effect of group (BPD > HC, F = 11.94 p = 0.001), and condition (synchronous > asynchronous, F(1,43) = 22.80, p < 0.001). There was a group x condition interaction for proprioceptive drift (F(1,43) = 6.48, p = 0.015) such that people with BPD maintained illusion susceptibility in the asynchronous condition. Borderline symptom severity correlated with illusion strength within the BPD group, and this effect was specific to affective symptoms (r = 0.48, p < 0.01). Across all participants, trait psychoticism correlated with illusion strength (r = 0.44, p < 0.01).ConclusionPeople with BPD are more susceptible to illusory body ownership than controls. This is consistent with the clinical literature describing aberrant physical and emotional experience of self in BPD. A predictive-coding framework holds promise to develop testable mechanistic hypotheses for disrupted bodily self in BPD.HighlightsThe rubber hand illusion (RHI) allows measurement of self-disturbance.People with BPD had greater illusion susceptibility and this correlated with affective symptoms.Interoception stabilizes representations of body ownership, and is impaired in BPD.Illusion strength correlates with psychotic traits across levels of psychopathology.Predictive coding frameworks can probe mechanisms of impaired body ownership in psychopathology.

Time course of anger and other emotions in women with borderline personality disorder: A preliminary study

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gitta A. Jacob ◽  
Cindy Guenzler ◽  
Sabine Zimmermann ◽  
Corinna N. Scheel ◽  
Nicolas Rüsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Preliminary Study

scholarly journals Comparable emotional dynamics in women with ADHD and borderline personality disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Talar R. Moukhtarian ◽  
Iris Reinhard ◽  
Paul Moran ◽  
Celine Ryckaert ◽  
Caroline Skirrow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Multilevel Modelling ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotional Dysregulation ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Affective Symptoms ◽  
Comorbid Adhd

Abstract Background Emotional dysregulation (ED) is a core diagnostic symptom in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and an associated feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We aimed to investigate differences in dynamical indices of ED in daily life in ADHD and BPD. Methods We used experience sampling method (ESM) and multilevel modelling to assess momentary changes in reports of affective symptoms, and retrospective questionnaire measures of ED in a sample of 98 adult females with ADHD, BPD, comorbid ADHD+BPD and healthy controls. Results We found marked differences between the clinical groups and healthy controls. However, the ESM assessments did not show differences in the intensity of feeling angry and irritable, and the instability of feeling sad, irritable and angry, findings paralleled by data from retrospective questionnaires. The heightened intensity in negative emotions in the clinical groups compared to controls was only partially explained by bad events at the time of reporting negative emotions, suggesting both reactive and endogenous influences on ED in both ADHD and BPD. Conclusions This study supports the view that ED is a valuable trans-diagnostic aspect of psychopathology in both ADHD and BPD, with similar levels of intensity and instability. These findings suggest that the presence or severity of ED should not be used in clinical practice to distinguish between the two disorders.

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