Introduction: A pervasive and inflexible personality characterizes the borderline personality disorder (BPD) and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Both belong to cluster B of the personality classification, and the main feature is emotional dysregulation and a high degree of impulsivity. Objective: To present, outline, and discuss the traits of borderline and antisocial personalities in the biblical characters. Methods: An extensive search was conducted in the Old and New Testaments to find characters who committed violent acts against themselves and/or against other characters. Right after, we sought traits of borderline and antisocial personality disorders and outlined the psychological profile of the characters. Results: Six characters committed suicide in the Old Testament. The first was Abimelech, whose history is told in the book of Judges, followed by Samson’s. The next was Saul, as presented in 1 Samuel. Ahithophel's suicide is reported in 2 Samuel, while Zimri is reported in the 1 Kings, and Judas, the most famous suicide of the New Testament. The following characters presented with a high degree of impulsivity and homicidal acts: Cain and Potiphar’s wife, reported in the book of Genesis, and Absalom and Amnon, described in 2 Samuel (Amnon was a rapist and killer). The last murderer woman described was Jezebel, presented in the book of 1 Kings and 2 Kings. Conclusion: The bible is a very rich and underexplored source of borderline and antisocial personality disorder descriptions.

IntroductionBorderline personality disorder may be associated with persistent facial pain since its relationship with different pain syndromes has been reported. Persistent idiopathic facial pain is commonly unilateral, pulsating, burning, or profound and challenging for clinicians. Therefore, excluding underlying organic causes by appropriate clinical investigation and complementary tests is essential to diagnose this disease.Objective This case report aimed to provide evidence of the relationship between idiopathic persistent facial pain and borderline personality disorder.Case report A 24-year-old woman reported severe pain in the left hemiface for ten months, three to six hours per day, five days per week. No abnormalities were found in dental and neurological assessments. A psychiatric evaluation was performed, and the patient met the criteria for borderline personality disorder. Pharmacological treatment consisted of daily lithium carbonate (900 mg) and venlafaxine (150 mg). Weekly sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy with emotional regulation and tolerance to stress were performed. The patient was evaluated every 30 days and showed improved pain intensity and frequency over six months. Conclusion Proper management of borderline personality disorder can modify the evolution of persistent idiopathic facial pain when both pathologies are comorbidities.

Introduction: Initiatic Psychoanalysis works with the plans of human spirituality. The philosophical, epistemological, and religious aspects began with the author Luciano da Fonseca Lins, Lacanian Psychoanalyst. Objective:The objective of Initiatic Psychoanalysis is to dismantle the identifications of the Self with the Illusory reality falsely presented as Perception. Perception is nothing more than electrical stimuli transformed in the brain, according to the beliefs of the perceiver. Method: A narrative review was carried out through a search in the electronic indexing databases MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, CAPES journal portal and Google Scholar. The methods used on the interpretive basis of textual construction were the Zen Buddhist Koans, which are puzzles given to be decoded by the no-Mind, the allegorical method of Philo of Alexandria and the desert monks. Such methods, in the context of allegory, are allusive ways of directing the subject to mythical amplifications, legends and fairy tales, in the sense of seeking the Apophatic path, that is, through negative meditation, possibilities to transcend intellectual thought, which he defines to interrupt the Seeker Individual's linear and compulsive thinking. Results: The expected results are to enable the Seeker Individual to abandon their neurotic narratives, which are repetitions of neuronal patterns, to a different way of perceiving, different from linear thinking. Such procedures are presented as a possibility of awakening the Seeker Individual to his self-deceptions, experienced up to the present. Conclusion: Intuition and insights are expected to have modified perceptual value to transform individual existential from existing.