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City University of New York (CUNY)

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2016

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The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma And Paranoid Personality Disorder Symptoms, Ayse Arikan Jan 2016

The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma And Paranoid Personality Disorder Symptoms, Ayse Arikan

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Background: Recent literature consistently shows a relationship between childhood trauma (CT) and personality pathology. History of childhood abuse leads to severe loss of trust. This loss of trust in early years is a strong predictor of the majority of personality disorders and is related to several problems in adulthood such as insecure attachment and distrust in interpersonal relationships. Although distrust is the key diagnostic component of Paranoid PD (PPD), empirical research mostly focused on borderline personality disorder (BPD) yielding limited information about PPD regarding its development and potential risk factors. This study has two aims. First is to examine the …