Związek poczucia ciała z autodestrukcją u osób borderline

Abstract

The article presents results and discussion of empirical data which evaluated a relationship between self-destructiveness and sense of body in borderline group. The authoress while presenting psychological mechanisms which underlie borderline pathology (e.g. splitting, fear of boundary loss, sense of emptiness) considers their impact on the sense of body. The proposed hypothesis is that disturbances in one's sens of body such as: change in self-bounadary perception. sense of inner emptiness, dissociation experiences, altered perception and loss of control of bodily states and negative attitude towards one's body may contribute to undertake self-destructive acts. While commenting the results of study, authoress interprets self inflicted pain as defense from psychotic disintegration.