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New Insight into Personality Disorders

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric Diseases".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 8146

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Prof. Dr. Eva Moehler

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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Saarland University Hospital, G-66421 Homburg, Germany
Interests: emotion dysregulation; personality functioning
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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on new insights into personality disorders. Personality disorders are highly prevalent and accompanied by significant and longitudinal psychosocial impairment.

Personality disorders can be described as persistent alterations in reactivity and regulation with regard to the self and others. Recently, neurobiological findings have become more elaborated and insightful and are of great interest for this Special Issue. Additionally, endeavours towards intervention and prevention focussed on dialectic behavioural therapy; however, randomized controlled evaluation data on other approaches are sparse, yet needed, regarding the frequency and severity of personality disorders. Low-threshold interventions are of specific interest. Other cutting-edge targets are factors contributing to personality disorder, such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse; early life stress; and adverse childhood experiences.  

This Special Issue invites researchers studying the topic of child maltreatment to share their work with regard to the risk factors and longitudinal consequences of all different forms of personality disorders.

Articles contributing to a transdiagnostic focus and a novel view on diagnostic and therapeutic standards in general will be highly welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Eva Moehler
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • personality development
  • emotional dysregulation
  • personality functioning
  • adverse childhood experiences

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Personality Disorders and Development
by Eva Möhler
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(8), 983; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12080983 - 26 Jul 2022
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Personality disorders constitute a major challenge for society, as well as psychiatry and psychotherapy [...] Full article
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Effects of a Standardized DBT—A Program on Identity Development in Adolescents
by Andrea Dixius and Eva Möhler
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(9), 1328; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13091328 - 15 Sep 2023
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Background: Identity diffusion plays a central role in the onset of borderline personality disorders. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is a treatment program for adolescents with emotional instability and dysregulation. The interest of this study is to examine the potential effects of [...] Read more.
Background: Identity diffusion plays a central role in the onset of borderline personality disorders. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is a treatment program for adolescents with emotional instability and dysregulation. The interest of this study is to examine the potential effects of a standardized and certified DBT-A therapy program on the identity development of adolescents in an inpatient setting. Methods: A total of 138 adolescents aged 13 to 18 years with symptoms of severe emotional instability were assessed before and after a certified and standardized 12-week in-patient DBT-A program targeting emotional regulation with the following standardized instruments: the Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (AIDA), Scale of the Experience of Emotions (SEE), and Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R). Results: The results indicate a significant change in identity development, emotion regulation, and general symptoms of psychopathology after treatment with DBT-A. Conclusions: In this large sample of adolescents, DBT-A significantly improved identity development and reduced identity diffusion, however, without a treatment-as-usual control group as a limitation. Nevertheless, our results may become clinically relevant for the prevention of chronic impairment in emotionally unstable adolescents. Full article
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Analysis of the Relationship between Higher-Order Factor Structure of Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality
by Danilo Pešić, Dušica Lečić-Toševski, Marko Kalanj, Ivan Ristić, Olivera Vuković and Bojana Pejušković
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(4), 605; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13040605 - 3 Apr 2023
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The growing body of evidence on the dimensional classification of personality disorders (PD) has resulted in its acceptance in the ICD-11 classification, which abolished categories and retains only a general description of PD. Specifying the type of PD is optional, and the suggested [...] Read more.
The growing body of evidence on the dimensional classification of personality disorders (PD) has resulted in its acceptance in the ICD-11 classification, which abolished categories and retains only a general description of PD. Specifying the type of PD is optional, and the suggested domains represent maladaptive variants of the five-factor model of personality (FFM). The aim of our study was to explore the existence of a joint structure between maladaptive and normal personality traits, and to investigate how these structures are integrated. The study included 223 patients who had been diagnosed with PD and completed the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorders and the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R). To determine the degree of overlap between PD domains and NEO PI–R scales, a canonical analysis of covariance was conducted. Our findings showed a relationship between the internalizing PD spectrum (consisting of avoidant, dependent, and borderline traits with detached and anankastic traits) and high neuroticism, low conscientiousness, and moderately low agreeableness and extroversion, suggesting the existence of a broad personality disorder factor. However, the internalizing dimensions exhibited a more pronounced effect within this construct. Furthermore, we identified a second function that demonstrated a link between the externalizing PD spectrum (including narcissistic, histrionic, and antisocial traits) and high extraversion, high openness, and low agreeableness, suggesting the existence of an externalizing factor. Overall, our findings provide evidence for a joint structure of maladaptive and normal personality traits in a sample of personality disorders and emphasize the importance of integrating the FFM model in PD evaluation in clinical practice, suggesting that differentiating between major subgroups could assist in adjusting therapeutic approaches. Full article
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Executive Function Deficits and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Adult Sample: A Latent Variable Analysis
by Keisha D. Veerapandian, Gabriel X. D. Tan, Nadyanna M. Majeed and Andree Hartanto
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(2), 206; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13020206 - 26 Jan 2023
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While borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptomatology has been studied extensively in clinical populations, the mechanisms underlying its manifestation in nonclinical populations remain largely understudied. One aspect of BPD symptomatology in nonclinical populations that has not been well studied is cognitive mechanisms, especially in [...] Read more.
While borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptomatology has been studied extensively in clinical populations, the mechanisms underlying its manifestation in nonclinical populations remain largely understudied. One aspect of BPD symptomatology in nonclinical populations that has not been well studied is cognitive mechanisms, especially in relation to executive functions. To explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying BPD symptomatology in nonclinical populations, we analysed a large-scale dataset of 233 young adults that were administered with nine executive function tasks and BPD symptomatology assessments. Our structural equation modelling did not find any significant relations between latent factors of executive functions and the severity of BPD symptomatology. Contrary to our hypothesis, our result suggests that deficits in executive functions were not a risk factor for BPD symptomatology in the nonclinical young adult sample. Full article
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