Citation

Wonderlich SA, Swift WJ. Int. J. Eat. Disord. 1990; 9(6): 629-638.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/1098-108X(199011)9:6<629::AID-EAT2260090605>3.0.CO;2-N

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The authors compared eating‐disordered patients with borderline personality disorder to those patients with other personality disorders or none at all. Borderline subjects differed from other personality disorders in several ways; most notably their histories of sexual abuse, self‐mutilation, suicide gestures, and perceived hostile parental relationships. Borderline subjects failed to differ from other personality‐disordered subjects in eating attitudes and showed only limited differences in eating symptoms. The results are discussed also in terms of their support for Benjamin's theory of borderline personality. Copyright © 1990 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; sexual abuse; female; suicidal behavior; article; major clinical study; personality disorder; automutilation; borderline state; feeding behavior