Auteur : Links, Paul S.

Maison d'édition : American Psychiatric Press

Date de publication : 1990

Collation : xiv, 159 p.

Collection : Progress in psychiatry ; 23

ISBN : 0880481889

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : 1. Family environment and borderline personality disorder : development of etiologic models -- 2. Interpersonal disorder in borderline patients -- 3. Assessment of interpersonal factors in borderline patholofy -- 4. Psychiatric disorders in the families of borderline outpatients -- 5. The childhood experience of the borderline patient -- 6. Sexual abuse and biparental failure as etiologic models in borderline personality disorder -- 7. Empirical investigation of the role of development in the etiology and outcome of borderline personality disorder -- 8. Abuse and abusiveness in borderline personality disorder -- 9. New Perspectives on becoming borderline

Résumé : The studies and reviews contained in this book point to heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of BPD. Moreover, these studies indicate that the etiology of this disorder, when examined carefully, moves one into a systems model. Not the initial etiologic models, derived by clinicians, that emphasized pathological early interactions with parents nor the second generation of models, offered by academicians, about a genetically controlled temperament or a biological vulnerability nor the third model, which emphasizes past traumatic stressors, is capable by itself of unlocking the etiologic puzzle. The studies on traumatic impact of early separations, the modeling effects of emotionally and impulsivity distrubed parents, and the effects of sustained abuse join the studies on family pedigrees in pointing to heterogeneous backgrounds of borderline patients. There are multiple factors that ca help shape the boderline patient's personality, but none are likely to be very specific and they are likely to have additive effects.

Mots-clés : État-limite (Psychiatrie) / Malades mentaux - Relations familiales

Cote : WM 190 F198 1990