title: [Borderline disorders in childhood and adolescence].
abstract: Borderline disorders are situated in the area between neurosis and (schizophrenic) psychosis. In psycho-analytical terms, a "borderline personality organization" is characterized by the following criteria: weak sense of identity, poor reality control, permeable ego boundaries, multifarious defense reactions to impulsivity, disturbed object-relatedness with inappropriate relationship to the environment, and the assumption of a disorder/trauma during early childhood. Some 90% of the children have a history of traumatization in the past, e.g. a severe illness or sexual abuse. Various models are used to explain the multifarious disorders. What can be compensated in childhood via so-called "emergency maturation" and adaptation to the prevailing situation, is far more difficult from early adolescence onward. Then, external regulators, such as alcohol or drugs play a greater role in the re-establishment of inner equilibrium.
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authors.lastname: Streeck-Fischer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000374:Aggression; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors