Borderline and Other Self Disorders: A Developmental and Object-relations PerspectiveThis work reflects Dr Rinsley's experience in treating seriously disturbed children, adolescents, adults and their families. The text shows that major personality pathology lies midway along a developmental-diagnostic continuum between the psychoses and the psychoneuroses. |
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The Weak | 8 |
The Toddler | 15 |
Further Comments on the Sources of Neutralized | 21 |
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abandonment depression affective aggressive alliance Anne antilibidinal ego anxiety associated autism bad object basic borderline and narcissistic borderline disorder borderline individual borderline patients borderline personality borderline personality disorder CATHECTED cathexis chapter child classical clinical component comprises concept depersonifying depressive position developmental arrest diagnostic ego boundary ego ideal Ego Psychology endopsychic structure etiology experiences external failure Fairbairn's fantasy Federn feelings fixation Freud function glossolalia glossolalic hence impairment infant infantile inpatient instinctual internal object introjection Kernberg later Mahler Masterson maternal Melanie Klein mental mother-infant narcissistic personality nosology object relations object-relations theory object-relations unit object-representations parents part-object part-object-representation part-self-representation pathological perceived persistence personality disorders phase pleasure ego psychoanalytic psychopathology psychosexual development psychosis psychotic rapprochement subphase reflects rejecting relationship representations repression rewarding part-unit Rinsley schizoid schizophrenia self-disordered self-object differentiation separation-individuation sexual significant SORU spectrum splitting defense stage superego symbiotic symptomatology syndromes therapist tion treatment whole-object relations withdrawing part-unit