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Trauma‐related dissociation: Psychological features and psychophysiological responses to script‐driven imagery in borderline personality disorder

Bichescu‐Burian, Dana, Steyer, Jürgen, Steinert, Tilman, Grieb, Benjamin, Tschöke, Stefan·2017·Psychophysiology

Abstract

Defense reactions to threatening situations are vital adaptations to stress that protect organisms from injury and ensure survival. We retrospectively investigated the role of peritraumatic dissociation (PD) in the occurrence of severe psychopathology and dissociative patterns of reactions in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We recruited 28 patients with a clinical diagnosis of BPD and 15 healthy controls. The BPD group was divided according to the level of PD (low vs. high): BPD and PD (n = 15) and BPD only (n = 13). We conducted an extensive investigation of history of trauma, clinical status, and measurements of emotional and physiologic responses to recall of personalized aversive experiences. Participants with BPD and high PD displayed highest degrees of trauma exposure and clinical symptoms. Their significant heart rate decline during the imagery of personal traumatic events was opposed to the heart rate increases exhibited by the other two groups and may indicate a dissociative reaction pattern. Skin conductance responses did not differentiate between groups. Several emotional responses to imagery also reinforced the idea that PD may play a role in memory processing of traumatic events and thus in the aggravation and maintenance of symptoms in particularly severe forms of BPD. Within a stepwise linear regression analysis, the best model for trauma-evoked heart rate responses included PD and borderline symptoms, but no measures of state or trait dissociation. Our…

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Authors
Bichescu‐Burian, D., Steyer, J., Steinert, T., Grieb, B., & Tschöke, S.
Affiliations
  • Center for Psychiatry Südwürttemberg, Weissenau Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I of the Ulm University Ravensburg Germany
  • Universität Ulm (DE)
Venue
Psychophysiology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2016-12-03
Volume
54
Issue
3
Pages
452-461
ISSN
  • 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8986
OpenAlex
W2560026994
Cited by
27
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 4
FWCI
5.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
Keywords
peritraumatic dissociation, borderline personality disorder, trauma exposure, script-driven imagery, heart rate response, skin conductance, dissociative reactions
MeSH terms
Adult, Arousal, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Disorders, Emotions, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Heart Rate, Humans, Imagination, Psychophysiology, Retrospective Studies, Young Adult

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