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Dysfunction of Empathy and Related Processes in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Association Between Emotional Intelligence and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2025Pooled it
- Affective cognition in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the performance on the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- A Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)-Guided Dashboard to Review Psilocybin Target Domains: A Systematic Review.CNS drugs · 2022Pooled it
- Empathy profiles in posttraumatic stress disorder: A person-centered approach to understanding emotion dysregulation and psychopathology.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Borderline personality symptom severity predicts reduced mentalization and affective empathy and altered responses to fairness in the Ultimatum Game.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- The Dual Facets of Emotion Perception in Adult Attachment Representations: A Systematic Review on Impathy and Empathy.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Neural correlates of social cognition in BPD: a review of MRI evidence.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Review
- Reduced activation in empathy core regions during observation of social interactions in patients with borderline personality disorder: an fMRI-study.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the relationship between resilience and empathy in medical professionals using structural equation modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Machiavellianism, level of personality functioning, and maladaptive personality traits: mediation analyses in a clinical sample.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Empathy, psychopathology and suicidal behavior: a case-control study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Topological data mapping of online hate speech, misinformation, and general mental health: A large language model based study.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Orthorexic Tendencies Are Associated with Autistic Traits in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Social camouflaging predicts eating disorder symptomatology among female patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Effects of psychedelic microdosing versus conventional ADHD medication use on emotion regulation, empathy, and ADHD symptoms in adults with severe ADHD symptoms: A naturalistic prospective comparison study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- The Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- May Female Autism Spectrum Be Masked by Eating Disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder, or Complex PTSD Symptoms? A Case Series.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Emotional reactivity and prosocial behaviour in response to witnessing social exclusion in adolescents with eating disorders and healthy controls.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Comorbidity and Overlaps between Autism Spectrum and Borderline Personality Disorder: State of the Art.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Profiles of theory of mind impairments and personality in clinical and community samples: integrating the alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
LEARNING
objectivesAfter participating in this activity, learners should be better able to:• Assess differences between adult patients with the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy control subjects in terms of empathy and related processes• Evaluate the effects of empathy or related processes as factors contributing to abnormal social functioning in BPD ABSTRACT: We reviewed 45 original research studies, published between 2000 and 2019, to assess differences between adult patients with the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy control subjects in terms of empathy and related processes (i.e., theory of mind, mentalizing, social cognition, and emotional intelligence). Thirty-six studies reported deficits of empathy or related processes in patients with BPD. Enhanced emotional empathy in BPD was also reported in eight studies, all of which revealed that patients had increased scores of personal distress on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index self-report questionnaire. Six studies did not find significant differences between patients with BPD and healthy control subjects in terms of empathy or related processes. No study reported enhanced cognitive empathy, social cognition, or emotional intelligence in patients with BPD. We postulate that deficits of empathy or related processes contribute to preempting the formation of stable interpersonal relationships, whereas enhanced emotional empathy might lead to personal (and interpersonal) distress, further contributing to abnormal social functioning in BPD.
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