BORDERLINE PERSONALITY-DISORDER AND LABORATORY-INDUCED COLD PRESSOR PAIN - EVIDENCE OF STRESS-INDUCED ANALGESIA

Authors
MCCOWN W GALINA H JOHNSON J DESIMONE PA POSA J
Citation
W. Mccown et al., BORDERLINE PERSONALITY-DISORDER AND LABORATORY-INDUCED COLD PRESSOR PAIN - EVIDENCE OF STRESS-INDUCED ANALGESIA, Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment, 15(2), 1993, pp. 87-95
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment → ACNP
ISSN journal
08822689
Volume
15
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
87 - 95
Database
ISI
SICI code
0882-2689(1993)15:2<87:BPALCP>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Behavioral neuroscience findings regarding stress-induced analgesia ma y be an appropriate model for the paradoxical effects of self-mutilati ve pain of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). We hyp othesized that BPD patients would show an exaggerated antinociceptive effect from an uncontrollable cold pressor stress, compared to persons with other personality disorders or to a nonpsychiatric control group . This hypothesis was supported. Limitations of the study and directio ns for future research are discussed