PERSONALITY DISORDERS OF TYPE “B” – ASB, HISTRIONIC, BORDERLINE AND NARCISSIST – AS PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES FOR MARRIAGE NULLITY IN CASES FILED IN THE DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL IN TORUN

Abstract

The article is by its nature interdisciplinary and presents the legal basis and personality disorders in psychological opinions resulting in valid consent to marriage in the object consensual aspect. The article presents the institution of marital consent as a causal cause of marriage and shows its object consensual invalidity in the analysis of personality disorders of type „B” antisocial, histronic, borderline, narcissistic. These psychological causes of invalidity of marriage are grouped into gender, etiology of disorder, dysfunctionality. The article is based on the analysis of selected cases from the years 2012–2016 which were judged at the Diocesan Tribunal in Torun. The analysis was presented by the author for all personality disorders with psychological, legal and statistical conclusions of the following articles: „Personality disorders as a cause of the invalidation of Catholic Marriage in Poland, The Person and the Challenges”, vol.10 (2020) n 1, pp. 193–213 and Personality disorders as a cause of consensual incapacity for canonical marriage, „Culture and Education” 2020 no. 1 (127), pp. 125–146. All data and case details used for the above analyses were used in accordance with the principle of the Data Protection Act which are subject to the protections and safeguards of the Regulation, in particular the principle of data minimisation and anonymisation.