Tecendo redes entre mulheres, socialização feminina e o transtorno de personalidade borderline: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is described as a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, as well as in affections and self-image. According to the DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR, around 75% of those diagnosed are women. Thus, there was a need to explore the structures that support this proportion in relation to gender. In this scenario, Feminism meets Psychology to promote and support reflections and new practices on women's mental health by reflecting on gender relations. The general objective was to map the literature in order to understand whether and how aspects related to women's socialization are considered - or not - in relation to the diagnosis of BPD, from the perspective of feminist theories. To this end, an integrative literature review was carried out, using the databases BVS, Portal de Periódicos CAPES and PubMed, with the descriptors 1) borderline personality disorder AND 2) sex difference AND 3) diagnosis. The results were interpreted using thematic analysis, resulting in the creation of three thematic clusters. It was possible to identify that the diagnosis of BPD in women, as well as the ratio between men and women, are directly crossed by the materiality of sex and, consequently, gender roles crystallized on the basis of sex. With regard to these constructs, it was possible to observe that the literature often chooses not to consider the gender relations that mediate culture. This factor leads to various neglects and biases within scientific research, and wanting to appear this (false) neutrality only strengthens the dominant ideology, contributing to the maintenance of the oppressions announced. In this way, the reproduction of weak evidence was perceived, which is nevertheless disseminated as strong precisely because it is in agreement with the masculinist perspective currently in vogue within psychiatry and psychology. In this regard, it is essential that mental health professionals build gender, race and class literacy into cross-cutting themes in the education of these workers, so that it is possible to create new paths of analysis and practices that take into account the holistic nature of the human being and, specifically, of women