Complex PTSD, affect dysregulation, and borderline personality disorder
Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2014; 1: 9. Published online 2014 Jul 9. doi: 10.1186/2051-6673-1-9 PMCID: PMC4579513 PMID: 26401293 Julian D Ford and Christine A Courtois Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Complex PTSD (cPTSD) was formulated to include, in addition to the core PTSD symptoms, dysregulation in three psychobiological areas: (1) emotion processing, (2) self-organization (including bodily integrity), and (3) relational security. The overlap of diagnostic…