This book presents current research results in clinical psychology, health psychology and psychiatry concerning the links between complex post-traumatic syndromes, dissociative states and borderline functioning. This research project, which spans over several years, consists of studies on the disrup...

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Main Author:	Schiltz, Lony (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Nova Science Publishers 2012
Series:	Psychology research progress
Subjects:	Borderline personality disorder / Etiology Psychic trauma Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung Psychisches Trauma
Summary:	This book presents current research results in clinical psychology, health psychology and psychiatry concerning the links between complex post-traumatic syndromes, dissociative states and borderline functioning. This research project, which spans over several years, consists of studies on the disruption of identity with excluded and marginalized persons by combining the clinical with the experimental approach. An exploratory comparative study is based on an intensive clinical investigation of people suffering from social precarity, belonging to different clinical subgroups: long-lasting unemployed people, homeless people, refugees and political asylum seekers and prisoners suffering from drug addiction. The authors used an integrated qualitative and quantitative methodology, combining semi-structured interviews with psychometric, projective and expressive tests
Item Description:	Includes index Introduction (The Choice of the Subject -- Basic Epistemological Considerations). -- Theoretic Background (From Borderline Functioning to Borderline Personality Disorder: Historical Evolution of a Concept -- Exploring the Analogy between Borderline Functioning and the Process of Adolescence -- Relations between Dissociation, Complex Posttraumatic States and Borderline Personality Disorder -- Diagnostic Considerations -- Indications for Arts Psychotherapies). -- . Integrated Clinical and Experimental Studies with People Suffering from Exclusion and Marginalization (Methods -- State of Mental Health among the Populations Suffering from Exclusion and Marginalization -- Results from the Exploratory Study (N=206) -- Investigating the Traumatogenic Hypothesis of Borderline Functioning with Optimal Scaling (Overals) -- Confirmatory Study and Meta Analysis -- General Synthesis). -- Evaluation of Arts Therapeutic Sessions (Constructing a Rating Scale for the Artistic Production -- Comparative Structural Analysis of the Pictorial Production of Different Marginalized Populations -- Arts Psychotherapies with Traumatized People: A Follow-Up Study -- Defense Mechanisms and Coping Strategies in Men and Women -- General Synthesis)
Physical Description:	x, 144 p. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9781614708100 161470810X