Preventing Wounds from Healing: A Relationship with Borderline Personality?
Sansone, R.A.; Lam, C.; Wiederman, M.W.
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 40(4): 469-471
2010
DOI: 10.2190/pm.40.4.iDocument Number: 208660
Patients with borderline personality disorder are characterized by ongoing engagement in self-destructive behavior, which may, according to previous studies of samples of convenience, include preventing wounds from healing. In this study, we examined in a consecutive sample of internal medicine outpatients the relationship between borderline personality symptomatology (using two self-report measures for borderline personality) and the phenomenon of prevented-wounds-from-healing. According to two different statistical approaches, there was a statistically significant relationship between positive scores of borderline personality symptomatology on both measures, and prevented wounds from healing. (Int'l. J. Psychiatry in Medicine 2010;40:469-471)