scholarly journals Persistent effects of traumatic experiences on borderline personality trait.

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichiro Izawa
Keyword(s):  
Personality Trait ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Traumatic Experiences

A Comparison between Borderline Personality Trait and Bipolar Trait

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-616
Author(s):  
SoYeon Choi ◽  
MinKyu Rhee ◽  
JoonHo Park
Keyword(s):  
Personality Trait ◽  
Borderline Personality

Body dysmorphic disorder in patients with borderline personality disorder: prevalence, clinical characteristics, and role of childhood trauma

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umit Semiz ◽  
Cengiz Basoglu ◽  
Mesut Cetin ◽  
Servet Ebrinc ◽  
Ozcan Uzun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Body Dysmorphic Disorder ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Clinical Interview ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Axis I

Objective:The prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is unidentified. We hypothesised that BDD would be more common than realised in patients with BPD and comorbidity with BDD would result in a more severe clinical profile. Also, childhood trauma may play a predictive role in this association.Methods:The study included 70 BPD in-patients and 70 matched healthy controls. The subjects were evaluated with a comprehensive assessment battery using Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID-II) diagnostic tool for BDD, Global Assessment of Functioning, Traumatic Experiences Checklist and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.Results:The prevalence of BDD was 54.3% in the borderline sample. The BPD patients with BDD had significantly lower overall functioning and higher levels of BPD pathology, childhood traumatic experiences, suicide attempts, substance abuse and self-mutilation than those without BDD. Traumatic experiences were significant predictor of comorbid BDD diagnosis in BPD patients.Conclusions:Our results suggest a relatively high prevalence of BDD among patients with BPD, and co-occurrence of BDD and BPD remains to be clarified. The additional diagnosis of BDD in patients with BPD may cause a more severe global illness, and these two disorders may share, at least partly, a common psychopathologic mechanism.

Emotional processing of traumatic emotions and early experiences using the therapeutic letters, role playing and imagination in borderline and other difficult patients

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1316-1316
Author(s):  
D. Jelenova ◽  
A. Kovacsova ◽  
T. Diveky ◽  
D. Kamaradova ◽  
J. Prasko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
List Type ◽  
Traumatic Memories

In many patients cognitive reconstruction helps to understand their problems in life and symptoms of stress or psychiatric disorders. Change in the thoughts and beliefs help them to feel better. But there are many patients who suffer with strong traumatic experiences deep in their mind and typically dissociate them or want to avoid them voluntarily. There is typical for patients suffering with dissociative disorders, borderline personality disorder and many people with various psychiatric disorders who were abused in childhood. The processing of the traumatic emotions from childhood can be helpful in the treatment of these patients. For the help is important:a) Understanding what was happen in childhoodb) Making clear of repeated figures of maladaptive behaviors, mostly in interpersonal relationsc) Making a connection between childhood experiences and here and now emotional reactions on various triggersd) Experiencing repeatedly the traumatic memories and elaborate them with imaginal coping.We describe:- how to map and elaborate emotional schemas- Socratic questioning with the patients with traumatic memories- how to work with traumatic experiences from childhood in borderline personality disorder.Supported by the research grant IGA MZ CR NS 10301-3/2009

Cognitive memory control in borderline personality disorder patients

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sala ◽  
E. Caverzasi ◽  
E. Marraffini ◽  
G. De Vidovich ◽  
M. Lazzaretti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Expected Improvement ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Probe Test ◽  
History Of ◽  
Memory Control ◽  
Cognitive Memory

BackgroundIt has been demonstrated that the mechanism of cognitive memory control in humans is sustained by the hippocampus and prefrontal cortices, which have been found to be structurally and functionally abnormal in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We investigated whether the memory control mechanism is affected in BPD.MethodNineteen Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV BPD patients and 19 matched healthy controls (HC) performed a specific think/no-think paradigm exploring the capacity of remembering and suppressing pair of words previously learned. After the think–no think phase, the second member of each word pair has to be remembered either when subjects are presented with the cue word showed at the beginning of the test (Same Probe Test; SPT) or when they are presented with an extra-list categorical word (Independent Probe Test; IPT). We evaluated the effect of suppression and of retrieval activity on later retention of words.ResultsBoth on the SPT and on the IPT, HC showed the expected improvement of memory retrieval on to-be-remembered words, unlike BPD patients. On the SPT, HC, but not BPD patients, correctly recalled significantly more words among remembered words (RW) than among suppressed words (SW). Similarly to HC, subjects with BPD without a history of childhood abuse showed a significantly higher percentage of correctly recalled words among RW than among SW.ConclusionsThe mechanism of active retrieval of memories and of improvement through repetition is impaired in BPD, particularly in those who experienced traumatic experiences. This impairment might play an important role, possibly resulting in the emergence of unwanted memories and dissociative symptoms.

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