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Trauma, Diagnosis, and Borderline Personality Disorder: The Need for Conceptual Clarity

2025-06-06

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<p>This paper explores the relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and trauma, with particular attention to the emergence of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) as a diagnostic construct. While trauma, especially in childhood, is commonly associated with BPD, it is neither a sufficient nor necessary cause, supporting a multi-causal model involving genetic vulnerability, environmental a...

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Literature Corpus work: 94223a9b-dd0c-5aa8-a0da-214de9a0b887
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/q9zcw_v1

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