Attachment and social cognition in borderline personality disorder: Specificity in relation to antisocial and avoidant personality disorders

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 207-215

  Beeney, Joseph E ^a   Stepp, Stephanie D ^a   Hallquist, Michael N ^a   Scott, Lori N ^a   Wright, Aidan G C ^b   Ellison, William D ^c   Nolf, Kimberly A ^a   Pilkonis, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment; identity diffusion; mentalization; self other differentiation; self other disturbance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923271287     PISSN: 19492715     EISSN: 19492723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/per0000110     Document Type: Article

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