The Pain Paradox of Borderline Personality and Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA): Recruiting Borderline Personality Organization to Predict the One-Year Postoperative Outcome.
Matthias VogelLydia FrenzelChristian RiedigerMatthias HaaseJörg FrommerChristoph H LohmannSebastian IlligerPublished in: Journal of pain research (2020)
The results suggest a psychodynamic mechanism of maladaptation after TKA apparently representing the bodily manifestations of fundamental psychic defenses.