Social cognition in borderline personality disorder: Evidence for dichotomous thinking but no evidence for less complex attributions

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 707-718

  Arntz, Arnoud ^a,b   Haaf, José ten ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences NIAS KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c GGZ Meerkanten ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; Dichotomous thinking; Mentalization; Social cognition; Splitting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTOMOUS THINKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL COGNITION; THINKING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING;

EID: 84866088850     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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