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Childhood sexual abuse and borderline personality disorder in the eating disorders
- Author:
- WALLER Glenn
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 18(1), January 1994, pp.97-101.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
In a patient series of 115 eating disordered women, a secondary diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was associated with a reported history of sexual abuse. The association was specifically with childhood sexual abuse, rather than with abuse later in life or with intrafamilial experiences. A model involving background features, precipitants, and immediate and long-term psychological consequences is suggested to explain this specific link to childhood abuse. The implications of this association for the treatment of anorexic and bulimic eating disorders are considered.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: a study of psychopathology
- Authors:
- BOOLS Christopher, NEALE Brenda, MEADOW Roy
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 18(9), September 1994, pp.773-788.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is often a serious form of child abuse. Studies 56 families in which there had been fabrications of illness. Most subjects met the criteria for more than one category of personality disorder.
Report of the Department of Health and Home Office Working group on Psychopathic Disorder
- Authors:
- REED John, chair
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health/Great Britain. Home Office
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a joint working group with the remit to review the treatment options for people with personality (psychopathic) disorders, their appropriate locations and the arrangements for placing offenders in need of treatment.
The illusion of love: why the battered woman returns to her abuser
- Author:
- CELANI David P
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 217p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Offers a controversial model of battered women as women who have a fundamental attraction to partners who are abusive, arising from personality disorders caused by childhood abuse or neglect. Argues that effective treatment for battered women must help to unravel futile and self-defeating patterns, such as ones that spring from fears of abandonment and fascination with men who produced exaggerated promises of love followed by extreme rejecting behaviour. Also looks at the personalities of abusers. Concludes that domestic violence is often the result of a union between individuals with complementary personality disorders.