borderline personality disorder

English

Noun

borderline personality disorder (plural borderline personality disorders)

1. (psychiatry) Behavior that borders both neurosis and psychosis.
2. (psychiatry, modern interpretation) A disorder characterized by extreme black and white thinking and instability in self-image and emotions.

   Hypernym: cluster B personality disorder

Synonyms

• BPD (abbreviation)
• EUPD (abbreviation)
• emotionally unstable personality disorder

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 邊緣性人格障礙／边缘性人格障碍 (bin¹ jyun⁴ sing³ jan⁴ gaak³ zoeng³ ngoi⁶)

  Mandarin: 边缘性人格障碍 (biān yuán xìng rén gé zhàng ài)

• Danish: borderline-personlighedsforstyrrelse, boerderline-personlighedsstruktur
• Finnish: epävakaa persoonallisuus (fi), rajatilapersoonallisuus
• German: Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung f
• Italian: disturbo borderline di personalità m
• Japanese: 境界性人格障害 (kyōkaiseijinkakushōgai), 境界性パーソナリティ障害 (kyōkai-sei pāsonariti shōgai)
• Korean: 경계선 성격장애 (gyeonggyeseon seonggyeokjang'ae)
• Russian: пограничное расстройство личности (ru) n (pograničnoje rasstrojstvo ličnosti)
• Spanish: trastorno límite de la personalidad m
• Turkish: sınırda kişilik bozukluğu (tr), borderline kişilik bozukluğu, sınır kişilik bozukluğu
• Vietnamese: rối loạn nhân cách ranh giới

See also

• avoidant personality disorder
• dependent personality disorder
• antisocial personality disorder
• narcissistic personality disorder
• histrionic personality disorder
• explosive sadism