Recollections of Family Experience in Borderline Patients

The Specific Role of Childhood Abuse, Parental Bonding, and Family Functioning in Female Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder

“…This failure of both parents in providing emotional care confirms the high presence of emotional abuse in the BPD group. Our findings also clarify earlier contradictions about whether neglect was perceived as coming from one parent (Frank & Paris, 1981) or both (Guttman & Laporte, 2002;Paris & Frank, 1989;Zweig-Frank & Paris, 1991). Further, in the multivariate model, low maternal care still predicted BPD in adolescence.…”

Family Structure as Recalled by Borderline Patients

“…Previous reports have, for the most part, utilized retrospective chart review to obtain data [2,3,6], One recent report did employ methodology similar to that used in this study, in that data was obtained directly from the patient [5], Subjective reports by patients of their family history reveal low sensitivity and high specificity [9]. We would expect that the borderline patient in this study may tend to underestimate the frequency and intensity of family conflict.…”

“…The father, through ab sence or aloofness, fails to prevent maternal control over the child. One recent report on the subjective impressions of borderline pa tients of their families supports the finding that patients felt their father to be less inter ested in them than comparison groups of normals and patients with neurosis or per sonality disorder [5], However, that same report, as well as that of Gunderson et al [6], fail to confirm the overinvolvcd, excessively affectionate rela tionship between the mother and the border line child. The impressions with our patients also differ from the proposal of Mahler [18] that the mother emotionally abandons the child during the rapprochement subphase of separation-individuation (16-25 months).…”

“…Some work is grounded in family systems theory [4], Recently, several research-based studies have emerged which have attempted to delineate characteristics which may be specific to the families of borderline patients [5,6], However, they have studied mainly female populations.…”

Two-year follow-up of inpatients with dissociative identity disorder

“…Traumatic experiences, including incest and childhood abuse, have been linked to symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) and axis I and II disorders (16,(19)(20)(21)(22)(23), including Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (2-4, 6, 9, 20, 24) and behavioral dysfunction (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44). Dissociative identity disorder, which is understood to be a disturbance resulting from severe forms of childhood abuse (1-3, 5, 45), presents with auditory hallucinations (46)(47)(48)(49), severe depression and suicidality (50), phobic anxiety, somatization, substance abuse (51), and borderline features (4,6,14,(52)…”