TITLE:
Complex trauma and borderline personality disorder
AUTHORS:
Joanic Masson, Amal Bernoussi, Marie Cozette Mience, François Thomas
KEYWORDS:
Complex Trauma; Borderline Personality; State of Non-Specific Extreme Stress
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.3 No.4,
October
25,
2013
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to bring together the concepts
of borderline pathology and complex trauma. We wish to show that the
symptomatology characteristic of borderline pathology approaches, is indeed
similar to, that of Non-Specific Extreme
Stress (NSES) states. Thus the hypothesis is that states of NSES and
borderline pathology constitute psychopathological entities which overlap but
reflect different paradigms. The former is linked to the field of psychotraumatology
while the latter is more rooted in psychoanalytic theory. In this way traumatic
etiology opens the way for the clinician to explore new psychotherapeutic
strategies.