Complex trauma, dissociation and Borderline Personality Disorder: Working with integration failures

Abstract A history of childhood trauma and ongoing dissociation are common in clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Symptoms that occur in clients who have Complex PTSD or dissociative disorders (OSDD or DID) have a significant overlap with those of BPD, such as self-harm, suicidality,...

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Published inEuropean journal of trauma & dissociation = Revue europâeenne du trauma et de la dissociation Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 63 - 71
Main Authors Mosquera, Dolores, Steele, Kathy
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published Elsevier Masson SAS 2017
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Borderline Personality Disorder
BPD
Complex PTSD
Dissociation
Dissociative disorders
Psychiatric/Mental Health
Trauma
Borderline Personality Disorder
Complex PTSD
Dissociation
Dissociative disorders
Trauma
BPD
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Summary:Abstract A history of childhood trauma and ongoing dissociation are common in clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Symptoms that occur in clients who have Complex PTSD or dissociative disorders (OSDD or DID) have a significant overlap with those of BPD, such as self-harm, suicidality, hearing voices, alterations in sense of self and states of consciousness, amnesia, depersonalization, chronic dysregulation, relational destabilization, and phobic avoidance of traumatic experiences. While many approaches focus on symptom management in BPD, we will describe a practical trauma-informed approach that emphasizes the need to identify and work with the individual's unintegrated inner structural organization as a means to address the root causes of symptoms.
ISSN:2468-7499
2468-7499
DOI:10.1016/j.ejtd.2017.01.010