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Sociocultural conceptions of the borderline personality
1Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|March 24, 2000
Abstract:
Although sympathetic to most analytic conceptions of the origins of borderline personality disorder, an addendum reflecting the recent and divisive impact of rapid social and cultural changes is proposed. Specifically noted are social customs that exacerbate rather than remediate early errant parent-child relationships and the diminished power of once reparative institutions that no longer compensate for these ubiquitous early problems.