Background This article builds on a previous review (Ford and Courtois, Borderline Personal
Disord Emot Dysregul 1: 9, 2014) which concluded that complex posttraumatic stress …

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, clinically heterogeneous, and particularly complex
neurodegenerative disease characterized by a decline in cognition. Over the last two …

Objective: Difficulties with dissociation and emotion regulation are well-documented
reactions to early adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Although findings identify …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by affect dysregulation, behavioral
dyscontrol, and interpersonal hypersensitivity with etiologic roots in insecure infant–parent …

The present study investigates the mediating effect of attachment trauma on the relationship
between childhood maltreatment and personality functioning in 199 adolescents (12-18 …

Background Co-occurring borderline personality disorder (BPD) features have a marked
impact on treatment of patients with mood disorders. Overall, high neuroticism, childhood …

The aim of research studies in the field of psychiatry conducted in recent years is to
formulate a consistent theory that would exhaustively explain the aetiology of depression. So …

Background Fear of abandonment and aloneness play a key role in the clinical
understanding interpersonal and attachment-specific problems in patients with borderline …

The main concepts of the free energy (FE) neuroscience developed by Karl Friston and
colleagues parallel those of Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology. In Hobson et al …

Objectives: The previous studies have reported that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
can have detrimental effects on victims' attachment styles, emotion regulation strategies and …