Citation

Byrne CP, Velamoor VR, Cernovsky ZZ, Cortese L, Losztyn S. Can. J. Psychiatry 1990; 35(7): 590-595.

Affiliation

Northern Ireland Health Services, Belfast, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2268837

Abstract

Fifteen patients with DSM-III diagnoses of borderline personality disorder and 14 schizophrenics were administered two questionnaires by an interviewer blind to the diagnoses. The questionnaires were the Childhood Life Events and Family Characteristics Questionnaire and the Parental Bonding Instrument. A scale to monitor denial was also included. Borderlines, when compared with schizophrenics, reported having significantly more childhood sexual and physical abuse, more early separation from their mothers, more paternal criminality, and also more paternal overprotection and less maternal care. When compared with normal population data, they received significantly less care and were significantly more overprotected by both parents.

Language: en