Chapter 27: Borderline Personality

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complex pattern of characteristics largely outside of the persons awareness, that comprise that individuals distinctive pattern of perceiving, feeling thinking coping and behavior

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personality

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are prominent aspects of personality that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts

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personality traits

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diagnosis based on abnormal inflexible behavior patterns of long duration traced to adolescence or early adult hood that deviate from acceptable cultural norms

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personality disorder

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the development of a separate and distinct personality are evident when there is impairment in identity integration

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self-identity

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ability to relate to others with empathy or intimacy

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interpersonal functioning

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characterized by a disruptive patter of instability related to self-identity interpersonal relationships and affects combined with marked impuslivity and destructive behavior

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borderline personality disorder

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occurs when parts of a persons identity are absent or poorly developed; lack of consistent sense of identity

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idenitfy diffusion

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rapid and extreme shifts in mood, erratic emotional responses to situations and intense sensitivity to critism or percieved slights

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affective instability

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evaluating experiences people and objects in terms of mutually exclusive categories which informs extreme interpretations of events that would normally be viewed as including both positive and negative aspects

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dichotomous thinking

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a disruption in the normally occurring linkages among subjective awareness, feelings, thoughts, behavior and memories

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dissociation

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acting wihtout considering the consequences of the act or alternative actions

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impusivity

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is deliberate self-injurious behavior with then intent to hurt self

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self harm

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a normal devlopemtant process during which the child develops a sense of self a permanent sense of significant totters and integration of both bad and good as a component of the self concept

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separation individuation

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patients falsely attribute to others their own unacceptable feelings impulses or thoughts

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projective identifitication

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patterns of thoughts that determine how a person interprets events

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cognitive shcemas

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senstivity and reactivity to enviornemtnal stress

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emotional vulnerability

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is the inability to control emotions in social interactions and includes an instability of mood, marked shifts from or to depression, stress related and transient mood crashes, rejection sensitivity and inappropriate and intense outbursts of anger

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emotional dysregulation

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a social situation that negates private emotional responses and communication

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invalidating environment

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categorized as all good or bad

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splitting

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a pattern of repetitive significant trauma and loss together with an inability to fully experience and personally iterate or resolve theses events

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inhibited grieving

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combines cognitive and behavior therapy strategies

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dialectical behavior therapy

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integral part of DBT and are taught in group settings in which patients practice emotional regulation interpersonal effectiveness distress tolerance core mindfulness and self management skills

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skills groups

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triad provides a speficic syntax and order patients to identify and express their feelings and seek relief

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communication triad

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help patient control the inappropriate expression of feelings

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thought stopping