Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at @UCFMed and @TuftsMedSchool; clinical and psychiatric social worker; psychoanalysis, history of psychiatry, psychopathology
May 13, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
More on thought disturbances in #borderline disorders #BPD: 🧵
The similarity between the psychotic thought processes of borderline and schizophrenia patients has been noted for over a century, as evidenced by Bleuler's (1911) term "latent schizophrenia," Peterson's (1954)...
"subclinical schizophrenia," and, most notably, Hoch and Polatin's (1949) "pseudoneurotic schizophrenia" to describe borderline personalities.
Some similarities between the two groups include the use of circumstantial rather than logical thinking (making connections between...
May 6, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I was asked recently about the relationship between #borderline personality disorder #BPD and schizophrenia. Most people know that the term "borderline" was coined to describe a condition on the border with psychosis ("borderline schizophrenia"), though it is now rarely... 🧵
discussed this way. (I am speaking about borderline personality here as a psychopathological entity, not as a level of personality organization.)
In borderline personality disorder, there is often great confusion between fantasy and reality ("variable reality testing")....
