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Published on: March 8, 2018
Ending the Competition to Better Understand Emotional Processes in Borderline Personality Pathology: Commentary on
1Department of Psychology, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.
Abstract:
In reviewing four prominent theories, Gunderson et al. (2018) incidentally highlight for the reader the need for new collaborative research efforts that draw together scholars representing these various theories o borderline personality pathology. Many avenues for such research exist that have the potential to improve o r overall understanding of the development, maintenance and possible treatment of borderline personality pathology in ways that research grounded in just one theory does not. Herein, the similarities and differences among these theories in their assumptions with regard to emotional baselines and sequences of emotion (i.e., primary and secondary emotional reactions) are discussed as one important direction for cross-theory research collaborations.
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