Relational and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Non-Violent Externalizing Personality Disordered Women: Introduction to Research

The purpose of this article is to introduce relational and cross-cultural perspectives on non-violent externalizing, personality disordered women. From these perspectives a 45-item checklist was created to be applied in three different cultures, English- Italian- and Spanish-speaking ones. This article focuses on a review of the relevant literature on non-violent, externalizing, personality disordered women, including possible family of origin background highlighting also some prominent characteristics that these women share partially with other borderline personality but not with depressed, personality disordered women. Preventive and therapeutic implications suggest that once validated, the checklist created to differentiate these women from other personality disorders will be converted and transformed into written interactive practice exercises necessary to help specifically these women.