Childhood Sexual Abuse, Parental Impairment and the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • Childhood sexual abuse in borderline patients made a significant independent contribution to the magnitude of borderline characteristics after controlling for other antecedents and degree of parental impairment. This finding strengthens the etiologic link between childhood sexual abuse and borderline personality.

publication date

  • September 1993