DeDee
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Thank you, Blue Bottle 01, for the next episode of insomnia's reading material.
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (The Master Work Series): Otto F. Kernberg: 9780876687628: Amazon.com: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wkTVDZRaL.@@AMEPARAM@@51wkTVDZRaL
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism (The Master Work Series): Otto F. Kernberg: 9780876687628: Amazon.com: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wkTVDZRaL.@@AMEPARAM@@51wkTVDZRaL
Otto Kernberg's Pathological Narcissism And The Borderline Condition is good although he is a Freudian. The key for me is the structure difference of the ego between the two. The result is the borderline can act narcissistically without being a true narcissist. They both are susceptible to psychosis but as I remember it borderlines are more likely to dissociate.
Hervey Kleckley's The Mask Of Sanity is also good and it seems to me his examples of psycopaths (1940s) are todays borderlines.
Today we tend to use the term psychopath to mean severe amoral/immoral socially destructive behavior and the term psychosis as severe withdrawal to the point of inability to relate. When in fact there is a large population of "difficult" people that manage to integrate well enough to pass from day to day even though in large sections of their lives they are inept and even destructive.
I suggest a you-tube search for BPD for many personal admissions and lists of well known people that fit the diagnosis. It is surprising how many well thought of people are borderlines.