borderline personality disorder

English

Noun

borderline personality disorder (plural borderline personality disorders)

1. (psychiatry) Exhibiting behavior that borders both neurosis and psychosis.
2. (psychiatry, modern interpretation) A disorder characterized by extreme black and white thinking and instability in self-image and emotions.

   Hypernym: cluster B personality disorder

Synonyms

• BPD (abbreviation)

Translations

Translations

• Danish: borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse, boerderline-personlighedsstruktur
• Finnish: epävakaa persoonallisuus, rajatilapersoonallisuus

• German: Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung f
• Spanish: trastorno limite de la personalidad m

See also

• avoidant personality disorder
• dependent personality disorder
• antisocial personality disorder
• narcissistic personality disorder
• histrionic personality disorder
• explosive sadism