Four Types of Borderline Mother / Daughter Relationships | Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder

This video answers the question: Can I discuss the relational dynamics between a mother with borderline personality disorder and her daughter? I answer this question by reviewing four types of the borderline mother/daughter relationship. Borderline Personality Disorder. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), we see nine symptom criteria for borderline personality disorder and five have to be met for a diagnosis. The symptom criteria include frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, unstable relationships, identity disturbance, impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging, suicidal behavior, affective instability, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger, and paranoid ideation or dissociation. Borderline personality disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder, so it’s in the same cluster is antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders. CHLEBOWSKI, S. M. (2013). The Borderline Mother and her Child: A Couple at Risk.