Background: Although much research on patients with epilepsy (PWE) has focused on psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders, the relationship between epilepsy and personality disorders has not been frequently studied. Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate borderline personality traits in PWE. Materials & Methods: In this case-control study, we evaluated 21...

Background and Objectives: Human coprophagia is a rare phenomenon with severe medical and social consequences. So far, coprophagia has mainly been associated with severe mental retardation, schizophrenia, dementia, and depression. We report a case of coprophagia in a 30-year-old woman with Borderline Personality Disorder (DSM-IV). This case report illustrates the severity of symptoms and malada...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that adult attachment is related to distress and personality disorders in incest survivors. METHOD Adult female incest survivors recruited from the community participated in a structured interview (Family Attachment Interview; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991) and completed measures of current functioning (Impact of Event Scale, SCL-10, Be...

Results from three studies suggest fluctuation in estrogen level may influence the expression of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms. In the first study, 226 women were administered the Personality Assessment Inventory, borderline scales (PAI-BOR; L.C. Morey, The Personality Assessment Inventory, Professional Manual, 1991) and a questionnaire that assessed time in menstrual cycle and...

Objective: Frequently patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) report a history of exposure to traumatic stressors and, as a consequence, symptoms of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTsD). BPD and PTsD combined exacerbate suffering beyond a simple additive effect. To assist these complex cases, we have tested the efficacy of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), an evidence-based treatmen...

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) have an overlap in both symptoms and risk factors, suggesting that they might reflect the same form of psychopathology, shaped by gender. However other lines of evidence point to the presence of partly unique, albeit overlapping, trait dimensions, specifically affective instability which differentiates BPD from ASP...

This cross-sectional study examined the associations between neighborhood-level socioeconomic-status (NSES), and psychosocial functioning and personality pathology among 335 adults drawn from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study. Participants belonged to four personality disorder (PD) diagnostic groups: Avoidant, Borderline, Schizotypal, and Obsessive Compulsive. Global fu...

Objective: frequently patients with borderline personality disorder (Bpd) report a history of exposure to traumatic stressors and, as a consequence, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd). Bpd and ptsd combined exacerbate suffering beyond a simple additive effect. To assist these complex cases, we have tested the efficacy of Narrative Exposure Therapy (nEt), an evidence-based treatmen...

objective: despite the fact that new criteria for borderline personality disorder (bpd) were resulted from five-factor model (ffm), there are a small number of studies that investigate the relation between proposed personality traits and ffm. also, cross-cultural study in this field is needed continuously. though, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the relation between the ffm and dsm...