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borderline personality organization: a standalone construct

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Clinical psychology

a level of personality structure marked by identity diffusion, primitive defenses and intact but fragile reality testing.

In clinical psychology, borderline personality organization refers to a level of personality structure marked by identity diffusion, primitive defenses and intact but fragile reality testing. This meaning comes from Kernberg (1967) in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.[1]

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References

Kernberg, O. (1967). Borderline Personality Organization. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 15(3), 641-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/000306516701500309

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