Attachment and borderline personality disorder: implications for psychotherapy.

摘要: Background: Psychopathology researchers and theorists have begun to understand fundamental aspects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) such as unstable intense interpersonal relationships, feelings emptiness, bursts rage, chronic fears abandonment, intolerance for aloneness, lack a stable sense self stemming from impairments in the underlying attachment organization. In present study, we will examine self-reported study group well-characterized patients reliably diagnosed with BPD. Sampling Methods: Ninety-nine outpatients BPD using International Personality Disorders Examination, completed number measures including Relationship Questionnaire, Style Experiences Close Relationships inventory. Results: Factor analysis revealed six factors that clustered into three groups corresponding an avoidant pattern, preoccupied fearfully pattern. The pattern showed more concern behavioral reaction real or imagined abandonments, whereas had higher ratings inappropriate anger. on identity disturbance, although only at trend level. Conclusions: psychometric properties response characteristics ECR items suggest scales, keying, domains are appropriate assessment samples. scales generally retain their factor structure show similar correlations inter-relationships. Nevertheless, consistent developmental psychopathology model, there some important differences structure, indicating need look both typical atypical samples when constructing models attachment. Further research is needed delineate prognostic prescriptive significance patterns treating