Self-conscious emotions, such as guilt, shame, or self-disgust, as well as self-related
motives, such as self-enhancement or self-verification, influence how people perceive …

Substance use disorders and personality disorders do very commonly co-occur. A
substance use disorder can be diagnosed in approximately 50% of patients suffering from a …

The social motivation hypothesis of autism posits that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is
characterized by impaired motivation to seek out social experience early in life that interferes …

Objective This study examined the relation between identity disturbance and emotion
dysregulation in a cross‐diagnostic sample. We assessed whether these constructs are …

Background The ventral striatum (VS) and striatal network supports goal motivated behavior.
Identifying how depressed patients differ in their striatal network during the processing of …

Identity diffusion is one of the defining characteristics of borderline personality disorder
(BPD). Given its central importance in the formal diagnostic criteria for personality disorders …

Objectives Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show various
psychopathological symptoms and suffer especially from disturbance in their identity. The …

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, which affects sense of identity. While the ability to
have a coherent vision of the self (ie, self-images) relies partly on its reciprocal relationships …

Symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD) often overlap.
In some cases, it is difficult to conduct a differential diagnosis based only on current …

Identity disturbance has been suggested to be a core feature of borderline personality
disorder (BPD). However, there is little known about the identity of individuals with symptoms …