- Title
- Trauma and ghosts in the nursery: parenting and borderline personality disorder
- Creator
- Newman, Louise
- Relation
- Infants of Parents with Mental Illness: Developmental, Clinical, Cultural and Personal Perspectives p. 212-227
- Relation
- http://www.australianacademicpress.com.au/Publications/Books/4-921513039.html
- Publisher
- Australian Academic Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- How can a woman parent well when she herself has been abused at the hands of her parents or other adult caregivers in her own formative years? Parents with a diagnosis of severe personality disturbance have usually themselves experienced early attachment-related trauma and maltreatment. Indeed, borderline personality disorder (BPD) may best be thought of as a trauma-related syndrome where significant abuse, typically at the hands of attachment figures, has disrupted personality development and interpersonal functioning. Traumatised individuals frequently experience core difficulties in understanding and responding to socioemotional information and interpersonal interaction and this may have a significant impact on parenting capacity, and child development. This chapter has four main objectives: provide a description of BPD in terms of its characteristics, prevalence and causal factors, particularly considering BPD in mothers; review the importance of mother-infant relationships on child development and the impact of disturbed early interactions; demonstrate how BPD impacts on mother-infant interactions and perceptions of parenting; consider approaches to early intervention for mothers with BPD and their infants.
- Subject
- borderline personality disorder; parents; mental illness; mother-infant relationships
- Identifier
- uon:6677
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804623
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921513039
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