scholarly journals The Ecological Origins of Self-disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Baptista ◽  
David Cohen ◽  
Pierre O. Jacquet ◽  
Valerian Chambon
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Behavioural Ecology ◽  
Biological Functions ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Recent Developments

Self-disturbance is recognized as a key symptom of Borderline Personality disorder (BPD). Although it is the source of significant distress and significant costs to society, it is still poorly specified. In addition, current research and models on the aetiology of BPD do not provide sufficient evidence or predictions about who is at risk of developing BPD and self-disturbance, and why. The aim of this review is to lay the foundations of a new model inspired by recent developments at the intersection of social cognition and behavioural ecology. We argue that the sense of agency is an important dimension to consider when characterizing self-disturbances in BPD. Second, we address the poorly characterized relation between self-disturbances and adverse social conditions encountered early in life. We highlight the potential relevance of the phenotypic plasticity framework in evolutionary biology to make sense of this association. We suggest that the effect of early life adversity on BPD symptomatology depends on the way individuals trade their limited resources between competing biological functions along the life cycle.

scholarly journals The Cognitive, Ecological, and Developmental Origins of Self-Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Baptista ◽  
David Cohen ◽  
Pierre Olivier Jacquet ◽  
Valérian Chambon
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Behavioral Ecology ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Recent Developments

Self-disturbance is recognized as a key symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Although it is the source of significant distress and significant costs to society, it is still poorly specified. In addition, current research and models on the etiology of BPD do not provide sufficient evidence or predictions about who is at risk of developing BPD and self-disturbance, and why. The aim of this review is to lay the foundations of a new model inspired by recent developments at the intersection of social cognition, behavioral ecology, and developmental biology. We argue that the sense of agency is an important dimension to consider when characterizing self-disturbances in BPD. Second, we address the poorly characterized relation between self-disturbances and adverse life conditions encountered early in life. We highlight the potential relevance of Life-History Theory—a major framework in evolutionary developmental biology—to make sense of this association. We put forward the idea that the effect of early life adversity on BPD symptomatology depends on the way individuals trade their limited resources between competing biological functions during development.

scholarly journals Recent developments in borderline personality disorder

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony P. Winston
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Personality Disturbance ◽  
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder

Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD; known in ICD–10 (World Health Organization, 1992) as emotionally unstable personality disorder) pose some of the most difficult management problems facing the clinical psychiatrist. They frequently present in crisis, but are often difficult to engage in any form of treatment. Their behaviour causes considerable anxiety but their ambivalence about treatment often leaves professionals feeling frustrated and resentful. These feelings can all too easily be transformed into therapeutic nihilism. As well as being a significant problem in its own right, comorbid personality disturbance complicates the management of other psychiatric disorders and has a negative effect on their prognosis (Reich & Vasile, 1993).

Early Life Adversity Modulation of Central Autonomic Network During Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (9) ◽  
pp. S165-S166
Author(s):  
Agustina Wainsztein ◽  
Mariana N. Castro ◽  
Ximena Goldberg ◽  
Camacho Vicente ◽  
Alvarez Mercé Rocío ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Central Autonomic Network

scholarly journals Psychotherapy, philosophy and the "personal story"

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Aleksadar Fatic
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Natural Development ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Way

The paper discusses the most recent developments in the psychotherapeutic methodology in the way of merging with the practical applications of philosophy in counseling. The author argues in favor of the upcoming ?return? to Lacanian psychoanalysis as the foundation of psychiatry and illustrates what this return of both psychiatry and psychotherapy to philosophically informed psychoanalysis involves, e.g. with regard to the understanding of psychoses (schizophrenia) and personality disorder (?borderline personality disorder?). The paper concludes that the contemporary methodological synergy between psychotherapy and the philosophical contextual interpretation techniques is not a ?revolution? in psychotherapy, but rather the outcome of a natural development process for psychotherapy.

Emotion-Oriented Coping Style Predicts Self-Harm in Response to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Frei ◽  
Vladimir Sazhin ◽  
Melissa Fick ◽  
Keong Yap
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Self Harm

Abstract. Psychiatric hospitalization can cause significant distress for patients. Research has shown that to cope with the stress, patients sometimes resort to self-harm. Given the paucity of research on self-harm among psychiatric inpatients, a better understanding of transdiagnostic processes as predictors of self-harm during psychiatric hospitalization is needed. The current study examined whether coping styles predicted self-harm after controlling for commonly associated factors, such as age, gender, and borderline personality disorder. Participants were 72 patients (mean age = 39.32 years, SD = 12.29, 64% male) admitted for inpatient treatment at a public psychiatric hospital in Sydney, Australia. Participants completed self-report measures of coping styles and ward-specific coping behaviors, including self-harm, in relation to coping with the stress of acute hospitalization. Results showed that younger age, diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and higher emotion-oriented coping were associated with self-harm. After controlling for age and borderline personality disorder, higher levels of emotion-oriented coping were found to be a significant predictor of self-harm. Findings were partially consistent with hypotheses; emotion-oriented but not avoidance-oriented coping significantly predicted self-harm. This finding may help to identify and provide psychiatric inpatients who are at risk of self-harm with appropriate therapeutic interventions.

Comparison of Three Questionnaires to Screen for Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne van Alebeek ◽  
Paul T. van der Heijden ◽  
Christel Hessels ◽  
Melissa S.Y. Thong ◽  
Marcel van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Patient Questionnaire ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Axis Ii ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm Iv

Abstract. One of the most common personality disorders among adolescents and young adults is the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The objective of current study was to assess three questionnaires that can reliably screen for BPD in adolescents and young adults (N = 53): the McLean Screening Instrument for BPD (MSI-BPD; Zanarini et al., 2003 ), the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire 4th edition – BPD scale (PDQ-4 BPD; Hyler, 1994 ), and the SCID-II Patient Questionnaire – BPD scale (SCID-II-PQ BPD). The nine criteria of BPD according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV; APA, 1994 ) were measured with the Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II disorders – BPD scale (SCID-II; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, Williams, & Benjamin, 1995 ). Correlations between the questionnaires and the SCID-II were calculated. In addition, the sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaires were tested. All instruments predicted the BPD diagnosis equally well.

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