Group Therapy Team, Aust-Agder County Outpatient Psychiatric Unit, Sorlandet Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway.
Department for Research and Development, Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
J Clin Psychol. 2020 Dec;76(12):2232-2248. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23013. Epub 2020 Jun 25.
To better understand how persons diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) make sense of the origin and development of their current everyday struggles.
Persons with AVPD (N = 15) were interviewed twice using semi-structured qualitative interviews, which were analyzed through interpretative-phenomenological analysis. Persons with the first-hand experience of AVPD were included in the research.
The superordinate theme, "a story of becoming forlorn," encompassed three main themes: "it goes all the way back to when I was little," "there was a distance between others and me," and "transitions made it worse."
Though the results are not necessarily specific to AVPD, the findings clarify how people with AVPD can make sense of their current struggles by constructing developmental life stories in the interplay between themselves as persons and the growing demands of their social world. Furthermore, childhood relational vulnerabilities may challenge the ongoing development of social cognition and skills.
更好地理解被诊断为回避型人格障碍（AVPD）的人如何理解他们当前日常困境的起源和发展。
使用半结构化定性访谈对 15 名 AVPD 患者进行了两次访谈，通过解释现象学分析进行了分析。具有 AVPD 第一手经验的人参与了这项研究。
上位主题“一个变得孤独的故事”包含三个主题：“这可以追溯到我小的时候”、“我和其他人之间有距离”和“过渡使情况变得更糟”。
尽管结果不一定特定于 AVPD，但研究结果阐明了 AVPD 患者如何通过在自身与社会世界日益增长的需求之间的相互作用中构建发展性生活故事来理解他们当前的困境。此外，儿童时期的关系脆弱性可能会挑战社会认知和技能的持续发展。
