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word
"borderline,"
unlike
other
clinical
of
misalliance
diagnosed.
so
endemic
to
work
with
patients
so
treatment,
and
that
it
might
be
an
act
of
projective
It is argued that
today
would
call
'borderline'
But then, it is
undertook
to
give
developmental
perspective.
will
that
insist
needed
to
name
this
this haunting:
After
the
presentation,
and
in
the
course
of
As might be
guessed,
seemed
the
group
burst
into
laughter,
which
both
This
is
the
place
would
like
to
begin:
with
It's my guess
"depressed"
or
"manic,"
"paranoid,"
"phobic,"
Or perhaps it
A schizophrenic
Indeed, one
action,
professionally
whatever
sensible
and
it
might
helpful
do
level,
at
its
most
involves
the
It
purview
of
the
clinician.
At
its
extreme,
this
and
the
imbalances
included
within
it,
seem
to
while
at
the
same
time
inflaming
desires
and
It
was
to
considerations
like
these
that
led
George
Vaillant
that
together
we
can
come
to
know
him.
This
It is my
It could thus be
these
meanings
and
more
than
her
own
But more
anxious
self-
It
"The
not
frankly
psychotic....
Thus
the
label
'borderline
Nearly 40 years
He adds,
It
seems
"borderline"
to
patients,
clarifications
of
me
that
the
Kernberg
the
more
history
recent
(1975,
of
and
1984)
work
very
with
helpful
notwithstanding,
twin
countertransference
pitfalls
as
the
therapist's
Neither help.
In Lacan's
From
this
angle,
the
act
of
diagnosing
the
that
"this
person
has
borderline
personality
dilemma
about
boundary.
Without
this
It mis-
recognizes who has what problem within this twosome, and thus
invites self-estrangement in both.
disingenuous
attempt
to
free
the
therapist
from
this
"contagion."
but
rather
vast
developmental
territory,
indeed
in
number
of
seriously
psychopathological
disturbances of personality.
typology
includes
the
psychotic
character,
the
Kerbergian
borderline with "hardly any mental skin" (p. 197), the "as if"
personality,
the
traumatized
patient,
and
the
narcissistic
The patients he
All
of
this
believe
derives
primarily
from
In fact, a
simple
throughout
arithmetical
Winnicott's work:
schema
of
development
runs
This
is
the
area
of
personality
disturbance,
of
Their relative
The person's
personality
disturbance)
insofar
as,
preoccupied
with
that
only
there
couple
is
no
such
interacting
thing
in
as
"borderline"
paradigmatic
way.
and
as
substituted
meaningful,
a
is
need-driven
lost;
gesture
in
its
from
place,
the
there
other,
in
is
the
Deutsch's
type
forces
on
the
observer
the
inescapable
has
something
about
it
which
is
lacking
in
naming
or
something
labeling
forced
process,
she
inescapably
sees
on
the
it
as
the
result
clinician,
and
of
she
failed
effort
to
use
multiple,
partial,
transient
must
be
reckoned
with.
Indeed,
this
force
or
this
personality;
and
it
also
represents
defensive
to
the
identifications
patient's
rather
pathology,
than
on
the
based
true
a response,
on
external
identity
of
the
This patient
manipulated,
as
therefore
not
worthy
of
the
patient's
problem
patient
of
our
time"
and
that
"the
mythical
But the
described
above
and
responded
to
so
collusively
concretized
in
the
totally
open
and
voluntary
as
one
feature
of
their
effort
to
organize
their
our
patients'
wondering
about
how
the
parts
fit
basic
self-preservative
effort
to
correct
any
warp
The only
To
For
treatment
personnel
or
for
the
individual
interpretation.
perhaps a
For Ghent,
inherent properties.
of
what
Winnicott
"realization,"
occurs
through
the
For Winnicott,
As Knight
It conjures up
nostalgic,
childishly
purified
of
anything
feels the aggression and can choose to deny it, as the patient
seems to, or to push it back into the patient and thus become
the disruptive, destructive intruder into the sentimentalized
internal relationship.
pitfall.
Both
parts
true:
there
is
lost
love
He needs
different
ways,
highlighted
the
use
of
the
Green returns us
an
'instinct'
appears
to
us
as
concept
on
the
For
Green
Perhaps
this
underlies
the
"borderline"
paradigm.
two-person
psychology
fraught
with
serious
loss
or
Affectivity is simply
other
may
or
may
not
be
able
to
do,
and
enlist
the
If he can, there is
in the primary other that Rosenfeld (1979) and many others see
as central to this area of psychopathology.
Winnicott writes:
his body (given what the patient is bringing to it) to his mind
which we call interpretation, delivered, if at all, with that
gracefulness and courtesy so thoroughly a part of Winnicott's
clinical care (1989).
parental
history
of
divorce
and
the
the absence of
presence
of
self-
the
child
"gradually
delineate
where
play
ends
and
including
constriction
of
the
in
Harry
experienced
upon
Stack
being
Sullivan's
survived.
phrase,
This
is
so
the
joyfully
task
of
boundary violation.
held
by
conclusion.
each
of
Perhaps
his
parents
the
might
"borderline"
lead
to
the
is
the
same
child's
The actual
efforts
at
contact
and
at
separateness
have
encountered
people
landscape.
do
not
emerge
from
this
developmental
needing
the
other
for
conflictual
equilibrium.
Most
outcome
(Winnicott,
superego pathology:
the
effect
of
1956b).
There
is
thus
also
behavior
and
needs
interpretation
from
the
Hamlet,
like
Dr.
Stone,
was
haunted
by
dark
suspicions.
lie.
trauma
Like
victims,
which
some
research
links
to
While he places
He has no
that
first
paradigm
two-person
relatedness,
it
last word:
This
the
treatment
of
described as cruel.
psychotic
children,
could
be
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