[Sequence of time and relation with others in borderline personality disorder]

In order to present some new psychopathological explanations on borderline personality disorder, the authors made a study on 3 borderline patients who could reflectively state their experiences of changes in the sequence of time and the relation with others. The following characteristics are considered to be most important: 1) They needed someone under their noses who always kept his/her eyes upon them. And as soon as they thought that he/she was in close relation with them, his/her intensions toward them were taken as already concluded (or determined) ones in their subjective experiences. 2) Every-time they found that others' intentions were apart from the determined ones, strong rage was evoked in them, because they felt that they were betrayed by others. Thus, their painful experiences were produced successively. 3) Consequently, they took the whole past as congregation of painful experiences, so that they struggled to cut the linkage of the present and the past. For that purpose, they tried to plunge head-long into momentary experiences. But to complete the purpose, they intensified their dependence on others' intentions again as previously stated. This vicious cycle itself is thought to be the significant framework of borderline personality disorder.