Four Types of Borderline Mother, Daughter Relationships, Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder

This video answers the question: Can I discuss the relational dynamics between a mother with borderline personality disorder and her daughter I answer this question by reviewing four types of the borderline mother, daughter relationship. Borderline Personality Disorder. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), we see nine symptom criteria for borderline personality disorder and five have to be met for a diagnosis. The symptom criteria include frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity in two areas that are potentially selfdamaging, suicidal behavior, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, and paranoid ideation or dissociation. Borderline personality disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder, so its in the same cluster is antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders. CHLEBOWSKI, S. M. (2013). The Borderline Mother and her Child: A Couple at Risk.