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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder

This protocol offers a detailed description of a psychophysiological experiment using script-driven trauma-related imagery and standardized clinical ...

Ulm University

Self-directed and other violence as well as subsequent coercive interventions occur in a substantial proportion of patients with personality disorders during in-patient treatment. Different strategies may be required to reduce coercive interventions for patients of different diagnostic groups.

Successful interventions on an organisational level to reduce violence and coercive interventions in in-patients with adjustment disorders and personality disorders.

There is no systematical research about the topic of dependence on antiepileptic drugs (AED) for patients with epilepsy, despite the fact that barbiturates and benzodiazepines comprise a potential risk of dependence. We hypothesize that there is no psychological substance dependence for patients with epilepsy, possibly because of their outcome expectations. The aim of the study was to examine these patients in terms of substance dependence. One hundred inpatients at the Lake Constance Epilepsy Center were asked about their experiences with AED in terms of dependence in a structured interview. We registered general statements about dependence of AED, markers for substance dependence, and outcome expectations. About 50% of the patients reported withdrawal symptoms and the development of tolerance, but less than 10% noticed loss of control and craving. Withdrawal symptoms and development of tolerance were significantly lower in a group of patients without barbiturates or clobazam versus patients with barbiturates or/and clobazam. There was no significant difference between these two groups in psychological criteria of dependence, that is, loss of control and craving. Outcome expectations of AED were clearly related to the efficacy against seizures, and only to a small amount to psychotropic effects. The study demonstrates that physiological variables of dependence are present more in patients with epilepsy with a permanent intake of barbiturates or clobazam, but psychological variables of dependence are rarely present in epileptic patients, with or without an intake of barbiturates and clobazam. These results confirm our hypothesis that substance dependence is not a major problem in benzodiazepines and barbiturates in patients with epilepsy. Outcome expectations seem to be related mainly to the anticonvulsant and not the psychotropic effect. This might be the reason for the absence of dependence.

Low risk of development of substance dependence for barbiturates and clobazam prescribed as antiepileptic drugs: results from a questionnaire study.

We examined the frequency of dissociative seizures in inpatients of a specialized ward for epilepsy as well as their diagnostic and therapeutic course. The basic principle of the latter is the therapeutic triad of value-free communication of the diagnosis, training of techniques for seizure interruption and problem solving of inner conflicts.

[Assessment and treatment of patients with nonepileptic dissociative seizures in a department of epileptology].

The aim of the study was to identify psychopathological similarities and differences in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizophrenia. We compared 23 female patients with a BPD and 21 female patients with schizophrenia according to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), dissociation, childhood trauma, and additional psychotic symptoms. The character of AVH was similar with regard to commenting voices, location, and foreign voices. Major differences were found in the prevalence of negative symptoms, bizarre delusions, and formal thought disorder. These characteristics were more frequent in schizophrenia and negatively correlated with childhood traumatization. A history of childhood traumatization and dissociative symptoms was significantly more frequent in BPD. AVHs in BPD and schizophrenia are not distinguishable in terms of the historically grown criteria in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision for diagnosing schizophrenia. Other symptoms such as delusions, negative symptoms, formal thought disorder, and dissociative psychopathology could help to differentiate between both groups.

Similarities and differences in borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia with voice hearing.

In the S3 treatment guidelines psychotherapy is recommended in all psychological disorders. Therefore, outpatient or inpatient psychotherapy should be recommended by therapists in most cases. On the other hand, it is well known that waiting periods for psychotherapeutic treatment are considerable, which raises the question how the recommendation for psychotherapy is presented in psychiatric hospitals in Germany.

[Recommendations for psychotherapy in psychiatric inpatient treatment : Results of the PAKT Study Part I].

Waiting periods for inpatient or outpatient psychotherapeutic treatment are generally considerable. For patients treated in a psychiatric day-clinic or hospital, implementation of a recommended subsequent psychotherapeutic treatment might be difficult.

Carmen Uhlmann

Centre for Psychiatry Weissenau,
Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I,
Centre for Psychiatry Weissenau, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I

Ulm University

Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder

Carmen Uhlmann

Centre for Psychiatry Weissenau,Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I,Centre for Psychiatry Weissenau, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I

Ulm University

Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder

Centre for Psychiatry Weissenau,
Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I,
Centre for Psychiatry Weissenau, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I