The link between early attachment style and personality disorder presentations
In this talk, Dr Diana Diamond describes the attachment style underlying borderline and narcissistic disorders. These have been identified over a randomised control trial of patients who exhibit either or both personality characteristics. BPD is linked primarily to preoccupied and/or unresolved attachment and NPD with dismissing/or cannot classify attachment representations in which the individual oscillates between dismissing and preoccupied attachment strategies.
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