| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 102 === Recovering from a breakup usually takes good adjustment skills and consumes great inner resources. The purpose of this study is to understand the rehabilitation process and to find out relevant factors affecting individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) when they’re facing with breakup. There were 6 patients with BPD aged 20 to 40 referred to be research subjects by 2 psychiatrists in Kaohsiung. For collecting data, purposive sampling and in-depth interviews are chosen in this study. The entire interview was audio-recorded, and the recordings were converted into transcripts. This study performed the “holistic-content” and “categorical-content” approach of narrative research to analyze the life story and the important issues across subjects.
The results indicated that (a) previous traumatic experiences, dysfunctional family, and insecure attachment negatively affect the development of romantic relationship; (b) the patients are generally the same as general population in cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses, but the main differences are that patients are lack in cognitive flexibility, performing extremely negative cognition, higher emotional intensity, frequent occurrence of suicide attempts, and self-injury; and (c) both emotional and behavioral dysregulation will lead to vicious circle and low level of recovery; (d) termination of relationship reinforces the negative concepts of self, interpersonal relationship, and love; (e) patients with BPD are willing to seek medical assistance, but it is difficult for them to maintain regular medication or psychotherapy. Based on these findings, implications for practice and further research were addressed as well.
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