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Systemic therapy theories should highlight the development patterns that lead to personality disorders. It is often mistaken to connect a symptom to the way in which the family acts here and now. Researches on family deficiency, on traumatic development, on attachment disorganization, and on the five reorganizations are the fundamentals for family and individual treatments of personality disorders.
“Borderline” stigmatizing diagnostic labels should be replaced by words that emphasize trauma and family deficiency.
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Selvini, M. (2018). A Challenge to Borderline Personality Diagnosis: Investigating Post-traumatic Personality Disorders. Connecting Personality Traits to Development in Family. In: Pereira, R., Linares, J. (eds) Clinical Interventions in Systemic Couple and Family Therapy. European Family Therapy Association Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78521-9_5
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