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Title:

Internal relationship patterns in borderline and neurotic personality organization: An analysis of self-narratives

Group publication title:

Polish Journal of Applied Psychology

Creator:

Soroko, Emilia

Subject and Keywords:

clinical diagnosis ; object relations theory ; level of personality organization ; CCRT ; relationship patterns ; narrative analysis

Description:

The Polish Journal of Applied Psychology is primarily devoted to original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to all fields of applied psychology. PJAP is mainly interested in publishing empirical articles, where quantitative as well as qualitative analyses of data enhance our understanding of individuals, groups or various social systems and have practical implications within particular contexts. Conceptual or theoretical papers may be accepted if they bring a special contribution into the field for application.

Abstract:

The main goals of this study are 1) to explore whether internal relationship patterns are related to personality organization, and 2) to recognize the role that selected relationship patterns play in diagnosing personality organization levels. Internal relationship patterns were assessed according to the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT)—about wishes (WS), responses from others (RO), and responses of the self (RS)—as identified from participants’ self-narratives about important relationships. Significant differences in the frequencies of patterns were found among participants with borderline personality organization (BPO), neurotic personality organization (NPO), and integrated personality (IPO). For example, the majority of negative RS responses were detected in the BPO sample. The study supports the thesis that relationship patterns might be related to personality organization, and that object representation complexity may be a good predictor of integrated personality organization.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Department of Psychology, University of Wrocław ; www.psychologia.uni.wroc.pl ; Publishing House eBooki.com.pl ; www.ebooki.com.pl

Contributor:

Kuczyńska, Alicja. Ed.

Date issued:

2014

Resource Type:

article

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2354-0052

Language:

eng

Is part of:

Polish Journal of Applied Psychology Volume 12, Number 3, 2014

Is referenced by:

www.pjap.psychologia.uni.wroc.pl

Rights holder:

Copyright by Emilia Soroko

Autor opisu:

TK