Fonagy, P; Luyten, P; (2016) A multilevel perspective on the development of borderline personality disorder. In: Cicchetti, D, (ed.) Developmental psychopathology. Vol 3: Maladaptation and psychopathology. (pp. 726-792). Wiley: New York, NY, USA.

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This chapter provides an update of the mentalizing approach to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). We present a multi-level approach to BPD from a developmental psychopathology life span perspective, discussing developmental pathways involved in the emergence of BPD from infancy to adolescence and (young) adulthood, locating the origins of the social cognition or mentalizing impairments typical of BPD patients in attachment disruptions. We also discuss in this context emerging findings stressing the importance of gene-environment transactions in BPD, and research findings concerning the neurobiology of impairments in mentalizing and attachment in these patients. Finally, we outline Mentalization-Based Treatment for BPD and we present a new view on the mechanisms of change in the treatment of BPD rooted in extant theories concerning the intergenerational transmission of social knowledge and social learning, suggesting that this mechanism may be the missing link that connects and is shared by all effective treatments of BPD.

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