Complex posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder: a truly complex relationship or a diagnostic artefact?
While there are many similarities between BPD and CPTSD, they can be distinguished clinically, although the boundaries between them are not clear-cut. Current evidence strongly suggests that BPD cannot be reduced to a trauma-related condition and that it would therefore be erroneous to replace it with CPTSD.
Authors
- Vladan Starčević (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6772-6995)
- Marta Moselli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8032-3533)
- Alessandra D’Agostino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0499-8990)
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- University of Urbino (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Current Opinion in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/yco.0000000000001045
- Primary Topic
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00