Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder

Hagai Harari; Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory; Milli Ravid; Yechiel Levkovitz

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2009.03.002

Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder

Hagai Harari, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Milli Ravid, Yechiel Levkovitz

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Abstract

We sought to characterize the cognitive and affective empathic abilities of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). While controls showed higher cognitive as compared with affective empathy scores, the BPD group demonstrated the opposite pattern. These results suggest that a dysfunctional pattern of empathic capacity may account for behavioral difficulties in BPD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	277-279
Number of pages	3
Journal	Psychiatry Research
Volume	175
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2009.03.002
State	Published - 28 Feb 2010

Keywords

Borderline personality disorder
Empathy
Theory of mind

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Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry

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