When she was bad: Borderline personality disorder in a posttraumatic age. |
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Becker, Dana
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Bryn Mawr Coll, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr, PA, US
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10/2000
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Journal
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American-Journal-of-Orthopsychiatry
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Vol 70(4): 422-432
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Women, Research, Borderline Personality; Feminism; Posttraumati Stress Disorder; Psychodiagnosis; Treatment
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Explored the relationship between women and psychodiagnosis by feminist therapists to redefine borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a form of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The advent of the PTSD diagnosis has been welcomed by many as a recognition of the circumstances and needs of victimized women. This paper argues that the increasing application of the PTSD label to women formerly diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, rather than resolving the dilemmas inherent in use of the borderline diagnosis, has succeeded instead in further medicalizing women's problems and reproducing the previously existing caste system of diagnosis and treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
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