Trauma, personality structure and psychopathology: a cartography of psychodynamic constructs
The results enable a data-driven, in-depth examination of the complex and often reciprocal relations among psychopathological symptoms, childhood adversity and psychodynamic personality constructs. Our observations highlight critical interconnections among childhood trauma, primary affects, personality functioning and psychopathology and pinpoint personality organization, hypomentalizing and SADNESS as central psychodynamic personality constructs.
Authors
- Nestor D. Kapusta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0970-4341)
- Henriette Löffler‐Stastka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8785-0435)
- Victor Blüml (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0226-0837)
- Human‐Friedrich Unterrainer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-0214)
- Hugo Senra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8054-6473)
- Johanna Alexopoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3200-6813)
- Jürgen Fuchshuber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2932-9029)
- Elisa Renner
Institutions
- Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien (AT)
- University of Essex (GB)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna (AT)
- University of Aveiro (PT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-025-00308-0
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31
Funders
- Universität Wien