Borderline Personality Disorder: Psychoanalytic Approach And Cognitive Behavioral Theory
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a syndrome that begins in young adulthood, characterized by excessive impulsivity, imbalance in affect and interpersonal relationships, inability to perceive self and hypersensitivity to abandonment (APA, 2013) Borderline personality disorder is a complex and serious mental disorder due to severe dysfunction and high risk of suicide. Although Stern (1938) used the term borderline among psychiatrists and mental health professionals long after its emergence in the psychoanalytic literature, it was only in 1980 that it entered...
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