BORDERLINE

PERSONALITY
DISORDER
KRISHNAPRIYA T S
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 PERSONALITY
“The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his or her unique
adjustments to the environment”

Or in other words, personality refers to all the ways someone shapes and adapts in a unique way to an ever-changing
internal and external environment.

Personality traits are normal, prominent aspects of personality.

Personality disorders result when these personality traits become abnormal, i.e. become inflexible and maladaptive,
and cause significant social or occupational impairment, or significant subjective distress
 PD
SYMPTOMS

EGO-
ALLOPLASTIC
SYNTONIC
 CLUSTERS
• ODD
CLUSTER A • ECCENTRIC

• DRAMATIC
CLUSTER B • ERRATIC

• ANXIOUS
CLUSTER C • FEARFUL
 CLUSTER A CLUSTER B CLUSTER C

• PARANOID PD • ANTISOCIAL • AVOIDANT PD

• SCHIZOID PD PD • DEPENDENT
• SCHIZOTYPAL • NARCISSITIC PD
PD PD • OBSESSIVE
• HISTRIONIC COMPULSIVE
PD PD
• BORDERLINE
PD
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BORDERLINE
PERSONALITY
DISORDER
People with borderline
personality disorder (BPD)
show a pattern of behavior
characterized by impulsivity
and instability in
interpersonal
relationships, self-image,
and moods
 CHARACTERISTICS
• CENTRAL CHARACTERISTICS IS AFFECTIVE INSTABILITY

• Affective instability is also characterized by drastic and rapid shifts

from one emotion to another

• People with BPD have a highly unstable self-image or sense of self,

which is sometimes described as “impoverished and/or
fragmented”

• Affective Instability+Unstable self-image = Highly Unstable

Interpersonal Relationship ( fear of abandonment, splitting,
projective identification)
• Another very important feature of BPD is impulsivity characterized by
rapid responding to environmental triggers without thinking (or caring)
about long-term consequences

• Impulsivity + Affective Instability = Erratic, self-destructive behaviors

such as gambling sprees or reckless driving

• Another characteristics is self mutilation

• In addition to affective and impulsive behavioral symptoms,
as many as 75 percent of people with BPD have cognitive
symptoms. These include relatively short or transient
episodes in which they appear to be out of contact with
reality and experience delusions or other psychotic-like
symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoid ideas, or severe
dissociative symptoms
 ETIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL

• HEREDITY

• NEUROTRANSMITTERS

• BRAIN ABNORMALITIES
PSYCHOSOCIAL

• Childhood adversity and maltreatment is linked to adult BPD

• Paris (1999, 2007) offered an interesting multidimensional

diathesis-stress theory of BPD. He proposes that people who have
high levels of two normal personality traits—impulsivity and
affective instability—may have a diathesis to develop BPD, but
only in the presence of certain psychological risk factors such as
trauma, loss, and parental failure