SPD individuals also tend to perform very poorly on tasks consisting of emotionally-valenced words, indicating that they may possess a cognitive bias towards neutral words. The first one concerns the concept of ego boundaries. For SPD individuals, then, there is conflict, or dysfunction between the outside and the inside world for the ego, thus leading to ego boundary problems. The second psychoanalytic theory stresses interaction with others, stating that SPD individuals existed in a state of high parental communication deviance . The higher their parents were in communication deviance, the worst the individual's symptoms and the more chronic the course of their disorder.
Psychoanalytic intervention focuses on defining ego boundaries.
Cognitive behavioral therapy also yields effective results in that it not only attempts to help the individual to interpret and make sense of odd beliefs, but also teaches them valuable coping and interpersonal skills. Resources message boards comments requests errors search Read the book.