‘Linguistic Shrapnel’
Inner speech in borderline personality disorder and its relevance for self-familiarity. A philosophical review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21750776 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philipp Schmidt (0000-0003-2538-1762, Heidelberg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1568-7759 • E-ISSN: 1572-8676 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11097-025-10117-z |
| OpenAlex | W4416133320 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 109 |
This paper sheds light on the role of inner speech and self-talk in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) by providing a literature review of existing empirical studies on related phenomena. Building on these insights, it explores how processes of linguistic self-relation may affect an individual’s sense of self. More specifically, it examines how processes of inner speech contribute to the genesis and sustainment of key psychological phenomena associated with BPD, which likely manifest as experiences of self-estrangement and hinder the development of a stable sense of self. First, I review the empirical literature on BPD, providing an overview of insights into intrapersonal dialogicality, auditory verbal hallucinations, inner speech and self-talk in BPD. Second, I then connect these empirical results with a philosophical notion of self-familiarity by exploring how linguistic processes in one’s experience of self, world, and others can significantly challenge or even undermine the development and sustainment of self-familiarity. By understanding how overt or covert dialogues within oneself may support or disrupt self-familiarity, I suggest, it becomes evident that linguistic self-relation is a critical area for therapeutic change and recovery in BPD
Attunement · Borderline personality disorder · Covert · Intrapersonal communication · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
New Perspectives on Inner Speech
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Against Narrativity
Schizophrenia, Consciousness, and the Self
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The Dual Role of Inner Speech in Narrative Self-Understanding and Narrative Self-Enactment
In Defence of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness
The unbearable dispersal of being
The felt sense of the other
Self-alienation through the loss of heteronomy
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Karl Löwith on the I–thou relation and interpersonal proximity
When the past becomes future-like
Toward a phenomenology of inner speaking
The varieties of inner speech
The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (Visq-R)
Self and Other
The Cognitive, Ecological, and Developmental Origins of Self-Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Tendencies Are Positively Associated With Self-Talk Frequency
Camouflaging in autism and borderline personality disorder
The identification and characteristics of the partially dissociated states of patients with borderline personality disorder
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Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism
Affect and narrative
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The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect
The Dialogical Self
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |