Borderline personality disorder

...While persistent hypochondria, obsessions or fears, depersonalization, and other neurotic symptoms are in the foreground, delusions and experiences of being influenced may also be present, and in the case of young people, various behavioral abnormalities (violence, drug abuse, self-harm, etc.) may be prominent, making treatment difficult at times. In 1928, the British physician J. Rickmann was the first to state that some psychiatric disorders were disguised as neuroses, but there is much debate as to whether this is an early stage of schizophrenia or an independent, unitary pathology, and today the view that it is a type of personality disorder (borderline personality disorder) is gaining strength in the United States and Japan. [Miyamoto Tadao]...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "borderline personality disorder" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…執拗な心気傾向，強迫ないし恐怖，離人など神経症症状を前景としながら，妄想や被影響体験が混じったり，若年者の場合には各種の行動異常(暴力，薬物乱用，自傷行為など)が目だち，治療も時に難渋する。1928年にイギリスのリックマンJ.Rickmannが精神病の中に神経症の仮面をかぶったものがあると述べたのが最初であるが，これが初期の分裂病なのか，独立の単位的病態なのかについては多くの議論があり，さらに今日では一種の人格異常(境界線人格障害)とみる立場もアメリカや日本で力を得ている。【宮本 忠雄】。…

※「境界線人格障害」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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