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Abstract
Problem: - Traditional psychodynamic concepts
impede intelligible interpretations of Personality
Disorder (PD). Combining traditional with
contemporary behavioural biological cognitive and
humanistic
concepts
clarifies
explanations,
facilitating psychotherapy.
Method: - Collecting data, making assumptions
and synthesising ideas. From clinical observations: pairing birth and childhood with trauma, pairs
subsequent
maturational
and
adaptational
separations with PD. From neonatal developmental
studies:- classical and operant conditioning exist at
birth. From trauma theory:- neuroendocrinological
responses to perinatal trauma exaggerate fear anger
and rejection, activated at birth. As terror hate and
abandonment,
they provoke
defences
of
hyperarousal and intense attachment; and reinforced
through operant conditioning by maternal love, they
evolve intolerable masochisms. Masochisms
provoke repression, conflict with reason and
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