Search for dissertations about: "Borderline Personality Organization"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Borderline Personality Organization.

  2. 1. Borderline psychopathology and the defense mechanism test

    Author : Elisabet Sundbom; Bengt-Åke Armelius; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Defense Mechanism Test; defense mechanisms; percept-genetics; Structural Interview; Borderline Personality Organization; Borderline Personality Disorder; Principal Component Analysis; PLS-discriminant analysis;

    Abstract : The main purpose of the present studies has been to develop the Defense Mechanism Test (DM1) for clinical assessment of severe psychopathology with the focus on the concept of Borderline Personality Organization (BPO) according to Kemberg. By relating the DMT and the Structural Interview to each other, the concurrent validity of the concept of Personality Organization (PO) for psychiatric inpatients has been investigated. READ MORE

  4. 2. Clinical studies on the borderline concept with special reference to suicidal behavior

    Author : Gunnar Kullgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; borderline;

    Abstract : The diagnostic concept of borderline personality has had various meanings throughout the last decades. From current clinical practice and research two principally different concepts have emerged: The syndrome concept of borderline personality disorder ( BPD ) as identified by the DSM-III or the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline (DIB) and the psychodynamic concept of borderline personality organization (BPO) as defined from the structural Interview (SI) by Otto Kernberg. READ MORE

  5. 3. Psychopathology, treatment utilization and gender in relation to substance abuse

    Author : Ulla Bertling; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Psychopathology; personality organization; ego functions; comorbidity; treatment utilization; gender; substance abuse; drug preferences;

    Abstract : A case-finding investigation was carried out among personnel within various treatment authorities in Stockholm county, with the purpose of identifying and estimating the prevalence of psychopathology among substance abusers known to the treatment providers. A special questionnaire was designed regarding drug and alcohol abuse, current social situation, legal interventions, utilization of treatment resources, and psychological problems. READ MORE