Borderline personality organization in violent offenders: Correlations of identity diffusion and primitive defense mechanisms with antisocial features, neuroticism, and interpersonal problems

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 314-327

  Leichsenring, Falk ^a   Kunst, Heike ^b   Hoyer, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Justizvollzugsanstalt Kassel 11   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY INVENTORY; BORDERLINE STATE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEAR; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INVENTORY OF INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEO FIVE FACTOR INVENTORY; NEUROSIS; OBJECT RELATION; OFFENDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0348141960     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.67.4.314.26983     Document Type: Article

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