Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality DisorderStudied empathy in 6 families of 27 women with borderline personality disorder (BPD), 28
women with restricting anorexia nervosa (AN, and 27 women without a clinical diagnosis (NC).
The daughters (aged between 16-40 yrs)and both parents responded to the Interpersonal
Reactivity Index (IRI), an instrument for assessing 4 dimensions of empathy. In addition, they
were personally interviewed, with the Family Interview for Protectiveness and Empathy (FIPE),
about the extent of empathy expressed by the parents to the daughter during her development. On
the IRI, women with BPD scored highest on the immature and lowest on the mature aspects of
empathy, whereas scores of AN...
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