PS280 Lecture : Borderline PD Histrionic P.D. Narcissistic Personality disorder Antisocial Personality Disorder Cluster B “Psychopaths” Incidence of Antisocial PD Etiolog
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Dramatic, emotional, erratic (borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, and antisocial disorders) 1 (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) (cid:215) Individuals with borderline personality disorders seem to have three basic assumptions: the world is dangerous and malevolent. The following passage is from a novel written by jonathon kellerman, a psychologist who is a successful mystery writer. The borderline patient is a therapist"s nightmare because borderlines never really get better. The best you can do is help them coast, without getting sucked into their pathology . they"re the chronically depressed, the determinedly addictive, the compulsively divorced, living from one emotional disaster to the next. Bed hoppers, stomach pumpers, freeway jumpers, and sad-eyed bench sitters with arms stitched up like footballs and psychic wounds that can never be sutured. Their egos are as fragile as spun sugar, their psyches irretrievably fragmented, like a jigsaw puzzle with crucial pieces missing.
