Borderline personality disorder and sexual abuse: A systematic review

Evaluation of the own body in women with current and remitted borderline personality disorder: evidence for long-lasting effects of childhood sexual abuse

“…Furthermore, our study was the first one to detect an impact of the severity of CSA on the negative evaluation of sexually connoted (but not on the evaluation of neutral) body areas. If replicated, these findings would indicate that the impact of CSA is particularly longlasting for the evaluation of sexually connoted body areas in women with BPD, hereby refining previous findings regarding the consequences of CSA in BPD (for an overview see de Aquino Ferreira et al, 2018). However, since the quality of sexual life was not assessed in the present study, the relatonship between a history of CSA and the quality of sexual relationships remains unclear and requires further investigation.…”

“…Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a frequent consequence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA, de Aquino Ferreira, Pereira, Benevides, & Melo, 2018 ). BPD is characterized by affective instability, an unstable sense of self, unstable trust, and hypersensitivity to interpersonal rejection (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ; Bortolla, Cavicchioli, Galli, Verschure, & Maffei, 2019 ; Glenn & Klonsky, 2009 ; Houben, Claes, Sleuwaegen, Berens, & Vansteelandt, 2018 ; Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan, & Bohus, 2004 ; Linehan, 1993 ; Miano, Fertuck, Roepke, & Dziobek, 2017 ; Schmahl et al, 2014 ).…”

Distinguishing Complex PTSD from Borderline Personality Disorder among individuals with a history of sexual trauma: A latent class analysis

“…The two disorders may be at risk of potential symptom overlap, as both measure variants of affect dysregulation, disturbed relationships, and negative self-evaluation (Resick et al, 2012). Additionally, both disorders tend to emerge in particular trauma contexts, notably among those with a history of sexual victimisation (de Aquino Ferreira, Queiroz Pereira, Neri Benevides, & Aguiar Melo, 2018;Ford & Courtois, 2014;Frias & Palma, 2015;Hyland et al, 2017;Resick et al, 2012).…”

“…Although trauma exposure is not a requirement for a BPD diagnosis, BPD severity demonstrates a dose response relationship with stressful life events (Shevlin, Dorahy, Adamson, & Murphy, 2007). In addition, childhood sexual assault may constitute a key etiological risk factor for the disorder (for a recent review see de Aquino Ferreira et al, 2018). Yet, trauma may be neither necessary nor sufficient to explain the development of borderline pathology, researchers have also emphasised other key risk factors including emotional maltreatment (childhood emotional abuse, neglect, and poor caregiving) and predisposing temperamental vulnerabilities (Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan, & Bohus, 2004;Scheiderer et al, 2015;Zanarini & Frankenburg, 1997;Zanarini et al, 1997).…”

Borderline personality disorder: an update for neurologists

“…1 8 The marked association between childhood sexual abuse and the development of BPD, and the positive correlation between the severity of BPD and the severity of the abuse experienced, have led some researchers to argue that people with BPD might be better thought of as having a chronic form posttraumatic stress disorder. 20 Clearly not all people who Review experience abuse go on to develop BPD, and the fact that abuse alone is neither necessary nor sufficient for its development points to other predisposing (such as genetic) and contextual mediating factors. 1 For example, emotional denial of a child's experience of trauma by their caregiver has been identified as a predictor for BPD.…”